Creating a Course/Group in Schoology

Adding courses and groups in Schoology can be done by any teacher or school administrator.  These are just directions for creating the course/group, there will be more information regarding adding materials and managing the course or group.

1) Log in to Schoology

2) Click on the “Courses” tab and select “Create”

3) Fill in the course information

     - For grading period: If it is a year long course choose all 3 grading periods.

     - No need to enter course code or section code

     - You can use section 1, 2, 3, 4 to create multiple sections of the same course

     - It is up to you if you want to create 1 big section or multiple

4) Once course is created you can edit course picture and change the settings and infor for the course on the left side by clicking on “course options.”

     - Another screencast for advanced course editing options will be available soon

Creating a course or group in schoology screencast:

Changing Your Password in Schoology

Your password is set as a default when you first sign on to Schoology.  It is strongly recommended that you immediately change your password so that others cannot access your account. Here is how you do it...

1) Log into Schoology using your default user name and password

2) Click on the little arrow on the top right by your name, then down to “Account Settings”

3) Once in account settings click on the small link on the left “Change Your Password”

4) The rest is yours

Changing your password in Schoology screencast:

Adding Content to Your Schoology Course (Basic)

The following screencast will cover adding the following content to your Schoology course

• File as an assignment
• File as a resource
• Discussion item/question for your class
• Online Test/Quiz (Basic)
• Link or an embedded video
• Attaching a quiz to another item
• Calendar item

There is a lot more

Organizing, Adding, and Sharing your Resources in Schoology

Your resources in Schoology can essentially replace saving your course resources on the S and H Drives.  It is easily organized and shared with other teachers for easy collaboration.  The big advantage of saving your things in Schoology is you can save online test/quizzes, link to resource videos, files with link attached and other multimedia resources.  It is a great way to organize your courses and units with worksheets, videos, formative assessments, and other resources.

The following screencast will show you how to...

• Add different content to your resources
• Organize existing content in folders
• Adding things from your Google Docs
• Sharing collections of content with others
• Searching and adding public resources
• Saving content from courses/groups into your resources

Organizing, Adding, and Sharing your Resources screencast:

Editing your Profile

One of the first things you should do when you log into Schoology is customize or edit your profile to make it personal for you.  You can choose to add whatever content you choose to.

This screencast will cover:

• Changing notifications
• Changing profile picture
• Connecting your Google account
• Connecting your Schoology Calendar to other calendars
• Editing Interests/Activities, Biography, Contact info, etc.

Editing your Profile screencast:

Adding Students to a Course/Group in Schoology

There are 2 ways to get students into a course and/or group in schoology. The 1st way is to have the students to log in and enroll themselves in the course using an access code and the 2nd way requires the teacher to search the directory and add the students yourself.

Students add themselves
 1) Have all students log into their account
 - User name = student id#
 - Password = password (lowercase)
 - School = Whatever school (192 after)

 2) Have students click on “Courses” tab and select “Join”

 3) They will be prompted to enter Access Code - This access code is located on the Course page (you have to give them code) - Access Code (XXXXX-XXXXX) 

Teachers add students
 1) Go to your course homepage and click the “members” button on the left side

 2) Then click “Add Members” on the upper left side of the screen

 3) Next you select your students and add into course
 - Make sure you are in the correct school
 - Either scroll the list or type in and search
 - You may select all before clicking add
 - No need to send email invitations

 Note: When adding members to a Group make sure to check the box that says “Add Members without Invite” if you want them to be automatically added to group

 How to have students join your course themselves screencast: How to add students to your course screencast:

Merging Multiple Schoology Accounts

Steps for Merging Schoology Accounts

1) Go to www.schoology.com
2) Log in using your district given information
Username: school user name (dpickens for me)
Password: school user name
School: Search your school (make sure to find the one with 192 after it)

3) Go up to the top right and find account settings (under the little arrow by your name)
4) Scroll down to merge accounts and click
5) Type in the email address and password of your previous schoology account
- most likely your school email address

Now you should be good to go.  

If you learn better by watching someone else do it first check out the screencast that I made merging two of my accounts...