Since our school uses Google Drive and has accounts setup for all students in grades 6 – 12, and all teachers have Google Drive accounts too, the fact that Schoology connects to Google Drive as an app is HUGE! Previous tip shows you how!
I find with many sources I have information readily available about what tech teachers can use in the classroom but rarely do they show or tell us how to use it. We look at it, say that’s cool, save the email or resource or pin it to a wall of sorts and never really organize it. Or better yet (sarcastic tone), we are so excited we create “free” accounts on every service, do a lesson here or there but never really blend the assignments. Sometimes we don’t go back to the projects or reuse them because they are hard to organize. For that reason alone is why I use Schoology. Schoology allows me to organize all the other resources (tech or not tech) into one location and deliver those resources to students AND collect assignments back from students. I can organize my lessons, align units, lessons, assignments to standards and use all the tech I want. Now listen, I don’t work for Schoology, they didn’t pay me, and well maybe someone that runs their Twitter page might know I exist LOL. To convince you to start using Schoology in your classroom may take more than one blog post, and I’m OK with that. But honestly this is one account you should go create now if you haven’t already. And login to it if you created it but never used it.
To get started, create an account.
Then create a course
From here you can organize your course. I use the free version of Schoology in my classroom so some of the utilities are not available to me but I have all I need to stay organized. Since we use Google Drive I have my students create their own Schoology account using their Google Drive login information. Then I give them the course access code to join my class.
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