Schoology is a
Learning Management System (LMS) that provides services for users to create,
subscribe to, and share files (Wikipedia). Schoology is online application that
it can be accessed by teacher, student, and also parents. By share the code and
join them, teacher can invite students and their parents. This application
makes student, teacher, parents more sociable, because they can be joined in
one group of the class. There are two mains feature in the Schoology; course
and group. Schoology has three benefits that can help the teacher to make an
easy assignment, make an effective time management in examination time, and it
is help teacher to scoring the result of student’s exam or assignment.
The first
benefit is Schoology can help teacher to make an easy assignment to his or her
class. In the Schoology, teacher can submit the material and the assignment
that teacher have before. Teacher can choose the appropriate assignment to the
class, for example, multiple choices, true/false, quizzes, but must of the
Schoology users are choosing multiple choices. With Schoology, paperless can be
conducted in the school. Students are using the computer’s school or their
laptop to access the assignment or the exam. Student can do the assignment
independently because the order of the question and the answer is random. In
addition, this also can prevent cheating because in the setting, teacher can
set the questions even the options of answers randomly to each student so they
will have no chance to cooperate with their friends while seeking the answer. So,
the teacher is not feeling confuse to make sure the student’s honesty. Teacher
can also set the correct and incorrect answer, if the set is on students can
know their mistakes and also the correct answer.
The second is
time management. In the Schoology, teacher can manage the time submission to
the student. Student can practice to be a discipline student. Teacher can set
the detail time submission in every assignment or examination. When student
pass the time submission, the question of the assignment will be closed and
student cannot work on it assignment again, the window will be closed and the
assignment is automatically submitted to the teacher. Student must attention to
the time when he or she do the assignment or exam. In this case, student must
work independently, because every assignment or exam has a time limit. So, the
English class can always finish on time.
The last is
scoring. Schoology is also help teacher to give a score to the student’s
assignment or exam, the assignment or exam is automatically submitted and
automatically recorded on it. After student do the assignment or exam the score
will be showed in the grade book. The parents can also see the score if they
joined the group. The grade book is showing the attendance and also the rank of
the student in the class. So, teacher is only give the printed score to the
parents or teacher can show the grade book by Schoology application to the
parents. In addition, teacher can give the explanation about the score of the
student to their parents or the progress of the student in the class.
Schoology is
very a useful application for teacher, student, and also parents. Schoology is
very helping teacher to make an assignment or exam, time class management and
also scoring the assignment or exam. In addition, Schoology will benefit to
improve teachers and student’s digital literacy. For further explanation about
Schoology especially of how to make an assignment or an exam to the students in
the Schoology, there’s video will be showed by clicking the video.
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