1. Click on "Add Materials" 2. In the drop-down bar, select which type of material you would like to add. In the next step, you will be able to customize settings per individual assignment/resource, including student visibility. 3. You can now customize the assignment (or any type of material), including adding external links, adjusting point values, etc. 4. You can adjust whether each specific assignment is visible to the students or when you would like it to become visible. This is particularly helpful in creating the coursework at the beginning of the year or semester, without having to add assignments one at a time or risk the over-eager student who wants to try to complete assignments way ahead of time.

There are many tools that enable you to have live discussions between students. While tools such as Flipgrid can be embedded directly into Schoology, you can also take advantage of the built-in discussion feature. 1. (add Discussion) Under the "Add Materials" dropdown menu, click on Add Discussion. 2. (Fill out the discussion form) Here is where you can outline the discussion points for the students, and set up grading as you would any other assignment. 3. (Options) Here you can assign individually just like any other assignment, and even customize the discussion to different groups. One very helpful option is to be able opt to set it to not allow students to see others responses before posting their own. Here's an example of what that would look like:

When sharing a video that's saved in Google Drive, don't use Add File/Link/External Tool. Instead, use Add Page and embed the video. Follow these instructions to share videos from online sources such as Google Drive, YouTube and others with your students in the smoothest way way possible on Schoology. Special thanks to Sandy Smith for helping us identify and address this issue!      Adding a video from Google Drive - video walkthrough     The issue - What not to do When sharing a video, the intuitive, but incorrect, way to share the video is to Add File/Link/External Tool. Don't do this! If you add the video this way, the video will not play in Schoology.     The Better Way - Adding a Page and Embedding the Video Instead, go to Add Page. Click the add content icon, then Image/Media Click Media Switch tabs to your video in Google Drive. Click the three dots in the top right, then Embed item.. Be sure your video is shared as "Anyone with the link can view" to avoid issues! Select and copy all the embed code. Be sure to select it all! Paste the embed code into the Link/Embed field. Give your page a title. Optionally, add any other text or media to your page, then click Create. Congrats! You now have given your students the easiest way possible to watch your video on Google Drive!      Adding Video from Youtube or another source to Schoology - Video Walkthrough      Adding Video from other sources For any source, the preferred method will be to find the embed code if at all possible, and add that to a page, rather than simply adding the link.

Courses in Schoology are "archived" after the term for that course ends. This helps keep the number of courses a student sees to only the current courses. Faculty may search for prior courses. You need to know: the name of the course the term you taught it Here's a short video showing you how to do this. Written instructions follow the video.  Go to meadowbrook.schoology.com, click on Courses, and on the top-right, select MyCourses. On the right panel, scroll down and turn off the option to Display Current Sections Only A new menu appears for Grading Period. From the list, select the term for the course. In this example, Q1 (20-21) Scroll up to the Course Name and type in a portion of it. In this example, Music. Click Search The course(s) from that term with that name will be displayed in the Course Listing.

Here's a two-minute video on how to add pre-made folders for 2021 from Resources to your Course in Schoology 1. Open Schoology and click on Resources 2. Click on Group 3. Click on The Meadowbrook School of Weston 4. Click on the checkbox next to each folder you need.   5. Select Edit -> Add to Course 6. Select which course you want to add the folders to. (Repeat steps 5 & 6 for each of your courses.) After you've imported them, be sure to go into each course and "unpublish" the folders until you want the students to see them. They are in reverse order so that as you make them available to students the newest ones will appear at the top.

If a student switches courses mid-year they should remain listed in the old Schoology course and be added to a new Schoology course. If they are removed from the old Schoology course all of their academic work and grades will be lost. In order to accurately calculate this student's grade, the teacher will need to export the gradebook from both courses and combine them in a spreadsheet. Exporting a Gradebook from Schoology to your Computer In your Schoology course, on left side, click on Gradebook. On the top-right of the gradebook, click the three dots and select Export. A menu appears. Select "Gradebook as CSV" and click Next A .CSV file is downloaded to your laptop. Upload the .CSV file to Google Drive Open a new tab in Chrome and go to drive.google.com Upload your downloaded gradebook file to drive by dragging it from the bar at the bottom of the Chrome tab into My Drive.

1. Open your course in Schoology, and click on Grade Setup. Next to Grading Periods, click the Edit button. 2. Next to the Filter, it says "Today". Click the clear filter button. 3. Use the scroll bar to scroll down until you see the grayed out Term that you need (in this example, it is Term 1 Gr 8 (20-21)) 4. Use the Check boxes to turn OFF the incorrect Term dates & turn ON the correct Term. When you are done, click Save. Updating your Gradebook Now you need to change each assignment in your gradebook to be either in your newly enabled Term. The students won't see their grades until you do this step.

1. On your laptop, use the Spotlight Search to open the Photo Booth program (it looks like this:) 2. Hold your Homework sideways up to the camera. Make sure the image is well lit, takes up the whole rectangle, and is easy to read. Then, press the red button at the bottom to take the photo. (Don't worry if the image is backwards. The computer will fix that.) 3. Use the Spotlight Search to open the Preview app. 4. Open your photo in Preview with the following steps:    1. On the left, scroll down to Media -> Photos    2. Click on Photo Booth.    3. Click on your photo.    4. Click "Open". 5. Rotate the Image using the highlighted button at the top of the Preview window.

Texthelp PDF Reader is a Chrome Extension that allows you to type or write on a PDF document. It can be used in Schoology to complete a PDF handout and submit it as an assignment. Installing Texthelp PDF Reader 1) Open Chrome and Login to Google 2) Go to the Chrome Extensions Web Store for this app. 3) Click on the Add to Chrome button: Click Add Extension: Once installed, you will see this box appear at the top of your Chrome browser: Using Texthelp PDF Reader in Schoology to Create an Assignment 1) First, the PDF needs to be uploaded to Google Drive. If the PDF has a lot of text, you may want to convert it to an OCR document. It can then be highlighted as a student reads it, or the computer can read it to them. To do this use Snapverter. 2)The teacher makes an assignment in Schoology. 3) The PDF is attached to the assignment using the Texthelp icon (rather than Google Drive). Here's a how-to video for teachers:

Schoology has a step by step explanation of how to use online discussions. Topics include: Creating Discussions Sharing Discussions Reading Discussion Posts Grading Discussion Posts