Schoology Review from a Teacher/ Technology Trainer Perspective
October 05, 2017

Schoology Review from a Teacher/ Technology Trainer Perspective

Lyons Matthew | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Schoology

Schoology is my school district's LMS. It is used across our entire organization, from daily interactions with students, to staff training, to dissemination of the curriculum in every subject area. It addresses the need to share materials across all levels (elementary, middle, and high school) along with sharing student data and supervision between teachers, administrators, counselors, monitoring teachers, and other staff. Everything from discussion to assessment can be done with little effort.
  • As a classroom teacher, I can assign projects to a whole class, a small group, or a single student, and manage all the responses from a single dashboard.
  • I can allow a monitoring teacher access to a student's work and discussion answers so we can work together to meet the needs of each student.
  • I can grade effectively using rubrics linked to state standards, giving us another tool to help determine content mastery in our students.
  • I would like to see a way that student data is preserved if a student is pulled from my class and put in someone else's class. Right now, that data disappears unless you add the student back in to the class they left.
  • I'd like to see an easier way to edit an assignments common to multiple planning periods. Even if you create a resource or assignment in the Resources section, when you share it out to other classes, you have to go in and make any changes in EACH class.
  • The app allows students to submit discussion answers and assignments, but the app looks very different from the online site. This leads to some confusion when students are trying to submit assignments.
  • We are still early in our implementation. We've only had it on campuses for about 2 months.
I was not privy to the reasons why Schoology was chosen over other LMS software.
It is great for blended learning with students in upper elementary through high school. It is easy to use for students and teachers. For English as a Second Language learners, it is a great way to show completed examples. I can even assign something different than the rest of the class. I don't know where it would be inappropriate.