courses vs. groups schoology overview

✓ 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

Logging into Schoology: Parents

www.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