Schoology has a feature that almost no one would know about. There’s a lot to take in when switching to a new program over the summer.
Schoology is an online learning site that in many ways is different from google classroom. It has many features that people didn’t even know about and other things that seem to be helpful for people to be using Schoology. For example the calendar, notifications, and more. Including the ability to change the color of your courses in the calendar section by clicking on the drop down menu at the top of the screen in the calendar section of schoology.
“It has too many buttons,” sophomore Faith McDaniel said when asked about what she didn’t like about Schoology.
That tends to be a problem for some students who were using the program for the first time, the older version of online learning used appeared less complicated compared to this new application, however, more buttons could mean more opportunities. If you take a look around the website there are several buttons and things Google Classroom never had that could be much beneficial. Examples of this include an inbuilt grading system, a calendar, and even a resources tab to add on features from your computer.
“I prefer newer methods because I feel it is more suited for the online learning we are doing,” Sophomore Angel Flores said.
Although it’s a new program, and everyone seemed to struggle at first, it’s clear that it’s online learning 100% compatible and that it made it grow on students now using it.
“May seem hard to work but it’ll get easier,” Flores said when asked about giving advice for anyone new to Schoology,
The program has proven difficult at first, but over time it gets easier. All it took was a little experience and knowledge of the program to help people manage it.
“One thing I would change is when you turn in your assignments they would go away like Google Classroom,” McDaniel said.
When there are multiple assignments in a course page for Schoology, it can be hard to track down which ones you haven’t done. However, one thing that could possibly help with this is going to the calendar, and to the day tab to check if an assignment is due that day or not. There are several other ways to look around and see other missing assignments you may not have done. As time goes on though, through experience is when Schoology will become just as easy as the older Google Classroom.