Schoology Made Me More Effective
November 06, 2018
Schoology Made Me More Effective
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Schoology
Schoology has been used as our primary LMS for about 5 years. During that time, its use has spread to district wide. It is an excellent source for managing student work and keeping parents in the loop.
- Schoology allows me to create assignments within a folder, assign them to students, and give feedback on their work. No more, "The teacher lost my assignment."
- Schoology allows me to develop effective assessments that rely on a variety of questioning levels, attach learning objectives to each question to give students purpose, and give fast feedback.
- Schoology allows me to track student progress by standards or traditional grading scales, allowing for complete flexibility.
- While Schoology has added the ability to load assignments from Google Drive to Schoology when creating assignments, it is unusable on iPads. This has been frustrating, but is easily worked around.
- Initially, the assessments were a bit hard to navigate, especially when trying to set submission parameters, but if you have done it once, it's actually quite easy.
- There are occasional glitches in giving student feedback where your comments are not visible to students, but this has become less of an issue with the update.
- I often struggle with organization, but Schoology has made it impossible to be disorganized. Flags when there are ungraded assignments, ability to lock folders, and the private messaging have simplified my life.
- We don't often think of messaging, but Schoology does. Instead of missing messages in my school email, students contact me on Schoology. No more missed emails when students are struggling.
- Schoology has made me a more effective educator and improved my ability to meet my students "where they are" in their learning.