Outcome

Tasks

I can...

• navigate the Schoology LMS
• communicate with all stakeholders via features of the LMS
• utilize a sandbox course effectively
  

Personalize Your Schoology Experience

1. Determine your default home page.
1. Do you want to see the Course Dashboard or Recent Activity when you first log on?
   
2. Reorder GROUPS and then COURSES for optimal organization
3. Add a collection to your Personal Resources to assist with organization

You can think of a collection as a master folder that helps organize all of your work.

For example, you can create a collection for each year, for each grading period, or for each course.

Begin to Personalize Your Student's Schoology Experience

1. Access the Schoology calendar and create an event.
   
1. Remember to disable comments.
   
2. Post events as Classwork with your agenda (bulleted list, links, files, etc)
   
3. Another great feature of the calendar is it automatically archives the event.
   
1. Students can go back to any event.
   
2. If they miss a day they can go through the calendar and see anything missed.
   

Organize and Understand the Purpose of Your Sandbox Course

This course will be a place where you can develop lessons, practice using Schoology tools, and more.

1. Create an assignment
   
1. Try utilizing these number templates to clearly identify the numerical order of tasks.
   
2. Hint: Add a table in the assignment and then resize the image to fit to your liking.
   
3. Add a discussion for students to participate in.
2. Add an update to one of your courses.
   
1. What announcements are you currently sending out to the community? Try moving them to Schoology.
   

Outcome

Tasks

I can...

• Create and organize folders in a logical sequence (such as by week, unit, subject, topic).
  
• Create optimal organization within a course and group
  
• Begin to engage all stakeholders
  

Determine Student Experience Per Course

Teachers may enable the Elementary Experience for any of their courses based on students’ needs, grade levels,

or accommodations.

• Schoology built this experience to better serve the needs of K-5 grade levels with an emphasis on pre-readers
  
• FYI: In order to use “View Course As”, there must be at least one member enrolled in the course.
  
• This is important to know if you enable this in your sandbox and/or you do not have a rostered course in TAC
  

Organize your Schoology Course | Course organization is essential to a successful student experience

Notes: Try this out in your sandbox course first before copying over to your course to cut down on

notifications your students and parents will receive.

• Create and organize folders in a logical sequence (such as by week, unit, subject, topic)
  
• Join the D303 SGY Educator GROUP: 2MDR-396N-38PWG
  
• Then select and copy a course organization template from this folder.
  
• Here are some examples you can use ✅
  
• Utilize Canva (login with Classlink) for design inspiration!
  
• Course profile images
  
• Folder descriptions
  
• Within one of your folders, create an assignment.
  
• Adding and embedding items from your google drive
  

Begin to Engage all Stakeholders

• Be an active participant of your PLC Schoology group and add an update or media album for colleague collaboration
  

Use media albums to share anchor charts you are using in your classroom

Outcome

Tasks

I can...

• Provide feedback on student activity submissions
  
• Create interactive learning opportunities for students
  
• Tag Course Materials with Learning Objectives
  
• Create multiple assessment opportunities
  
• Differentiate utilizing features within the Schoology LMS
  
• Engage students within the LMS and monitor analytics
  

Provide Ongoing Feedback to Students

• Provide feedback to a student assignment submission in Schoology
  
• Feedback on a Schoology assignment can be completed by adding text, audio, video, or a file.
  
• Try out an assessment sampler in our Instructional Tech Support course
  
• Try creating an assessment in Schoology. See these videos for question-type overviews.
  
• Create badges for students! Need ideas? Find badge templates here!
  

Create Personalized Learning Experiences for Students

• Grading groups are a great way to associate students of the class to group projects, special needs, or specific criteria.
• Create grading groups in one of your courses.
  
• Assign folders, assignments, etc. to your grading groups.
• Student Mastery Reporting allows educators to view student achievement on any standard or learning objective that has been aligned to Assignments, Assessment questions, graded Discussions, or External Tools
• (Nearpod, Padlet, Book Creator, Newsela, etc)
  
• To ensure the next step works appropriately, adjust your GRADE SETUP.
• Align an assignment to standards such as: CCSS or NGSS. See here for how to do that.
• Once students complete the “assignment” that you have aligned to standards, it needs to be graded.
• At that point, you can view the analytics of your class.
  

Analyze Course Analytics to Gauge Student Engagement

• Click on one of your courses and look at the analytics. Analyze the student detail report,
  
• Take attendance right within Schoology
  
• EMBED: Keep students inside of Schoology to ensure accuracy of the analytics and interactivity.
  
• Using embedded content in your design is one way to control the amount of clicks a learner must take to get to your content
  
• Embed course materials OR YouTube (this takes away the ads)
  

Outcome

Tasks

I can...

• Create interactive learning opportunities for students
  
• Communicate mastery with all stakeholders
  
• Create multiple assessment opportunities
  
• Personalize instruction utilizing features within the Schoology LMS
  
• Engage students within the LMS and monitor analytics
  

Broaden Communication with all Stakeholders

• Images and media can be added to Updates along with links, text, equations, & more
  
• Integrated recording tools let you add a video or audio message
  
• Polls can be added to collect feedback and add interactivity
  
• Align District Mastery objectives at the course level
  
• Create a rubric and attach it to an activity
  

Create interactive and personalized learning opportunities for students

• Consider your audience when designing the course layout and activities.
  
• Students can communicate their achievements and reflect on what they’ve learned with Portfolios.
  
• Easily collect, organize, and share student work with others, even if they aren’t on the Schoology platform.
  
• Create a student choice playlist within Schoology. See video below or here.
  
• Want your students to have an interactive daily schedule at the top of their Materials and Updates area in Schoology?
  
• Thinking about creating shortcuts to the different folders in your course? Use a course header with hyperlinked images.
  
• Try out student-completion rules to structure the flow of your course, as well as create self-paced learning for students.
  
• To help students stay more organized and control course pacing, only publish what you need to.
  
• Click here to see how to students can add to their portfolio within Schoology.

Engage students within the LMS and monitor analytics

• Embed youtube within the LMS without distractions
  
• Click on one of your courses and look at the analytics.
  
• Analyze the student detail report