Schoology help - High School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long have you been in FCPS? I have been navigating Schoology since my kids were in elementary school.

Our high school only puts in about a fourth of the assignments and the due dates are often off as well. It's really not useful because....FCPS. They just have low standards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long have you been in FCPS? I have been navigating Schoology since my kids were in elementary school.

+1. Every year, a different set of teachers use the system differently. You have to nose around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long have you been in FCPS? I have been navigating Schoology since my kids were in elementary school.

Our high school only puts in about a fourth of the assignments and the due dates are often off as well. It's really not useful because....FCPS. They just have low standards

You know that they’re not required to put everything in Schoology, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s very frustrating when your child’s Schoology says missing assignments and they are over 20 days old or 28 and the teacher hasn’t updated anything.

Then it’s missing. Schoology records it as submitted once it is submitted. If your child submitted it late, then he has to wait for the teacher to get back to it, but it won’t still say missing.

[Anonymous]

The issue isn't learning how to navigate Schoology.
The real issue is that when kids are in HS they have seven different teachers who use it in seven different ways. There are no standards for how teachers use it so every teacher uses it how it works best for them. For the vast majority of kids, it would be a whole lot easier to understand where to find things if every teacher had to follow some standards.
I'm a teacher and this drives me crazy.

[Anonymous]

This

It’s insane. Every teacher uses schoology differently. It’s such a disservice to students.

My DS has an IEP … and even then it’s an uphill battle to have teachers ensure he knows where the deadlines/assignments are posted.

Teachers should be trained to use schoology consistently, but it’s just chaos!

Best thing to do is meet with each teacher individually, most importantly, at the beginning of the year.

[Anonymous]

Schoology is not the only place assignments live. I do not do assignments on Schoology. Kids need to be off the screens and they do better with paper assignments. Only our major writing summative every quarter is posted and submitted on Schoology. That being said, every single assignment in SIS / Parentvue/ Studentvue has a description of what the assignment was, when we did it, the due date, and the 2 week late 50% credit due date. So check there too. You have to click the assignment in the gradebook to see this info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long have you been in FCPS? I have been navigating Schoology since my kids were in elementary school.

Our high school only puts in about a fourth of the assignments and the due dates are often off as well. It's really not useful because....FCPS. They just have low standards

You know that they’re not required to put everything in Schoology, right?

That was my point. Not required is the low standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long have you been in FCPS? I have been navigating Schoology since my kids were in elementary school.

Our high school only puts in about a fourth of the assignments and the due dates are often off as well. It's really not useful because....FCPS. They just have low standards

You know that they’re not required to put everything in Schoology, right?

That was my point. Not required is the low standard.

Teacher here. It’s not a low standard. You can’t implement lockstep structures and routines across all grade and content levels, that’s ridiculous and would be very ineffective.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long have you been in FCPS? I have been navigating Schoology since my kids were in elementary school.

Our high school only puts in about a fourth of the assignments and the due dates are often off as well. It's really not useful because....FCPS. They just have low standards

You know that they’re not required to put everything in Schoology, right?

That was my point. Not required is the low standard.

Teacher here. It’s not a low standard. You can’t implement lockstep structures and routines across all grade and content levels, that’s ridiculous and would be very ineffective.

And yet many schools do just that. Really not that hard. Kids have a set time for school classes. They have rules to follow. Yes, you can put all assignments and tests in a computer program just like they all are for SIS as well without drama. In fact they all show up in SIS so obviously they could also all show up in Schoology. This isn't that difficult.

[Anonymous]

And in SIS now they've been broken out into skills. So not just the assignments but skills associated with the assignment. Before it was just the assignment. So both of these methods were implemented without issue. How did this happen? Oh yeah. Teachers were instructed to do so and it was a requirement.

[Anonymous]

OP, use his access ID to see what's in Schoology and help him organize his work. My DS has ADHD and his organizational skills suck. He would do the work and forget to turn it. I color coded all of his classes in Schoology, as well as types of assignments. It helped him a lot. I can't say he's an A student but definitely out of "Ds and Cs" domain. Only 1 C this term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, use his access ID to see what's in Schoology and help him organize his work. My DS has ADHD and his organizational skills suck. He would do the work and forget to turn it. I color coded all of his classes in Schoology, as well as types of assignments. It helped him a lot. I can't say he's an A student but definitely out of "Ds and Cs" domain. Only 1 C this term.

The problem like the teacher said above is that most of the assignments aren't put into schoology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, use his access ID to see what's in Schoology and help him organize his work. My DS has ADHD and his organizational skills suck. He would do the work and forget to turn it. I color coded all of his classes in Schoology, as well as types of assignments. It helped him a lot. I can't say he's an A student but definitely out of "Ds and Cs" domain. Only 1 C this term.

The problem like the teacher said above is that most of the assignments aren't put into schoology.

Guess we got lucky. All of DS assignments are there. Our main issue is that some teachers are very slow graders, so we don't find out until much, much later that he is missing something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schoology is not the only place assignments live. I do not do assignments on Schoology. Kids need to be off the screens and they do better with paper assignments. Only our major writing summative every quarter is posted and submitted on Schoology. That being said, every single assignment in SIS / Parentvue/ Studentvue has a description of what the assignment was, when we did it, the due date, and the 2 week late 50% credit due date. So check there too. You have to click the assignment in the gradebook to see this info.

Thanks. This is a huge help to those us with with kids with executive function issue and provide supports privately and at home, which is impossible to do when we can’t see the assignments. I have resigned myself to looking at 7 different classes x SIS + Schoology X # of kids.

But, I’m sure the five minutes my kid isn’t spending on their laptop are doing much more good. /s