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SCHOOLOGY

• Learning Management System (LMS)• Schoology is not your typical learning

management system (LMS). We have redefined the LMS to make online education a collective effort and to increase the overall impact of everyone involved in a student's education.

• Courses created in Schoology have a teacher attached

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Web Hosting/Cloud Service

Schoology hosts your website, your content, and your files. Best of all, it connects you with your students to help improve outcomes.

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Course Profiles

Every student is unique. That's why an effective education is both dynamic and agile. Schoology makes creating unique and flexible course profiles simple with a whole suite of student-centric content creation and learning tools and an easy-to-use, intuitive interface.

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Flexible Instructional Tools

Students learn differently—that’s why effective instruction requires a flexible solution. Schoology empowers instructors with the tools to easily differentiate instruction, pace students individually, and implement group-based learning.

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Badges

With the ability to create custom badges using a choice of shapes, colors, and any image or animated GIF available on the web, educators are better able to build incentive and reinforce positive behavior in a fun way.

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Calendar• Schoology gives you a user-friendly

calendar to help simplify the constant tasks of organization and keeping everyone on the same page.

• Schoology's calendar is an easy-to-use, robust way to manage personal and course events, ensuring communication for all.

• Schoology’s calendars are color coded, provide automatic updating, and can synchronize with other web-based calendars such as Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar.

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Online Homework Submissions

Schoology's Assignment Submissions feature simplifies and centralizes the process of submitting, annotating, grading, and returning assignments so there's no unnecessary repetition.

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Create Assignments and Events

Schoology’s robust content creation tools and user-friendly interface make creating diverse assignments and events simple. You can easily attach and embed engaging media from your hard drive or the web. Best of all, created assignment and events are automatically organized in the course, group, and personal calendars.

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Create Tests and Quizzes

Formative assessment is essential not only to understanding learner strengths, but also to finding routes toward improved student outcomes. Schoology’s assessment creation tools provide instructors with simple ways to create media-rich assessments using new, repurposed, and standards aligned content.

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Make Learning Mobile

Native mobile apps extend our award-winning LMS to all iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire mobile devices for free, enabling cost-effective 1:1 and BYOD initiatives. Everything from assessment creation, submission, and grading to media-rich discussions are easily achieved from a mobile device.

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Online Gradebook and Attendance

Schoology’s Gradebook and Attendance save you time by automating the redundant tasks of inputting grades and taking attendance. Even with custom grading scales and easily editable settings, you can focus your time and efforts elsewhere.

• Offer a more collaborative, interactive, and mobile learning experience that constantly evolves, and you’ll keep everyone engaged like never before. That’s what the Blackboard Collaborate™ online collaboration platform is all about. Helping you create virtual classrooms, offices and meeting spaces that open more possibilities to more students, wherever they are. Offering exciting new approaches to learning while involving each student on an individual level. With solutions like these, we can build a better educational experience that will get everyone talking.

• This is a key communication tool for the students who have courses that have a teacher attached. They will meet online weekly for office hours.

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PLATFORM DESIGNED FOR EDUCATORS

Web Conferencing

Take live engagement online. Deliver highly engaging and effective virtual classroom activities, meetings, webinars, professional development, blended learning, and help across your academic enterprise. 

Voice Authorizing

Create a more engaging and effective asynchronous environment by adding a voice authoring component to facilitate vocal instruction, collaboration, language study, personalized coaching, and assessment.

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Mobile Collaboration

Give today's active learners the interaction they want with live participation in classes and meetings on their mobile devices—anytime, anywhere, and from any LMS. 

Instant Messaging

Create a learning network to support office hours, school services, impromptu meetings, one-to-one collaboration, student help, and desktop video conferencing—all initiated through presence and instant messaging. 

• The CompassLearning Odyssey® suite of learning solutions includes lessons and activities that are based on current and confirmed research about the way today’s students think and learn. Odyssey curricula for primary and secondary students facilitates differentiated and personalized instruction, while formative assessments and reporting tools help drive data-driven decision making.

• Courses created in this program do not have to have a teacher attached to them.

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Interactive and Engaging Learning Experiences

K-12 Activities:ELA MathematicsScienceSocial StudiesArt MusicHealthPhysical Education

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Easily Assess and Prescribe

• Prescriptive personalized learning paths are based on curricula that align to State and Common Core State Standards.

• Automatically generate personalized learning paths based on each student’s multi-dimensional assessment, and utilize the robust curriculum.

• After assessment, Odyssey automatically generates a learning path. Teachers can then adjust the path based on their knowledge of performance data.

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Real-time reporting

• Compass Learning reports list and summarize a wide variety of student information, allowing educators to dig deeper into individual student achievement, and even address community issues outside of the classroom. Learning Path Status• Student Progress• Objective-based Test Results• Student Writing Portfolio• Student Completion

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Odyssey Writer• Embedded in Odyssey activities at levels 3–

12 and also can be used on its own for any level or activity.

• This feature contains essential organizational tools, such as note cards and mind maps and guides students through the brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revision.

• Helps prepare students for high-stakes writing assessments with its customizable evaluation rubric.

• This lets teachers examine a student’s specific area of needed improvement so that future writing assignments are tailored to enhance the potential for success.

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Teacher Created Lessons

• Match teaching styles and unique needs of each classroom through a more flexible design and manage the assignments.

• Teachers can upload custom content from external documents or embed links to web-based materials to build authentic tasks in courses to provide additional learning opportunities.