courses vs. groups schoology overview
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✓ Schoology: What is it and the Why do we use it?
✓ Creating an Account
✓ Layout
✓ Courses vs. Groups
✓ Calendar
✓ Updates
✓ The App
✓ Notifications
Schoology Overview
✓ Schoology is an online course management
system that increases access to academics and
removes barriers to learning.
✓ It is used for K – 12, higher education, and even
the corporate business training
What is Schoology?
✓ It creates an engaging and interactive online course environment
that is easy to maintain and keeps pace with today’s students –
digital natives.
✓ It provides college-readiness skills
✓ It creates another opportunity for teachers to differentiate
content and activities
✓ It helps streamline communication and further centralizes
resources for students and parents
✓ It fosters responsibility and ownership in students
Why Schoology?
Creating an AccountGo to www.schoology.com
Parent Access Codes:
• Can also be found in your HAC account in the Registration tab
Logging into Schoology: StudentsStudents can access Schoology through their MyHumble login.
This takes the students to www.humble.schoology.com
Schoology: Layout
Recent activity and posts from your Courses & Groups Upcoming
events/calendar
Overdue Reminders
Personal User Tabs
Student Name
Message Center
Courses & Groups
Courses
➔ Each course a student is enrolled in is automatically loaded in the list
➔ Click on a course to see the material
Student Name
Courses
➔ Click on a course to see the material
Student Name
Student Name
Groups
➔ Some students will also be in groups (clubs, athletics, etc.)
➔ Each group has unique Access Code provided by the sponsor
➔ Each group has a Resource area accessible by members
Groups
Schoology CalendarStudent Name
Upcoming events/calendar
Overdue Reminders
Upcoming Events
● Connected to Calendar● Pinned by date to right menu chronologically
You can view the calendar by month, week, or day:
Calendar
UpdatesUpdates● Teachers post updates from within a Course or Group. The school also
post updates.
● These push to your e-mail or phone depending on how you set notifications.
Schoology Updates
Recent activity and posts from Courses & Groups
Student Name
Student Name
Downloading the App(You must create / have a Schoology account first)
App: Parent Directions
App: Student Directions
Students need to select the school.
Select either Atascocita Middle School or Humble ISD
Managing NotificationsFrom your Settings Tab