Schoology help - High School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

But it's not helpful. The due dates aren't in SIS and they aren't entered often until the grades are ready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

But it's not helpful. The due dates aren't in SIS and they aren't entered often until the grades are ready.

Hence the sarcasm tag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Sorry for your kid but I cannot plan robust instruction for 130 kids based on what’s most helpful for you and your one kid with executive function issues. That is why he should have a basic skills class instead of study hall so the teacher can work with him on this stuff. What did your parents do back in the days when they couldn’t surveil your every move in school?

If he has an IEP for his executive function disorder you should get it written in there that he can have digital assignments for everything. Otherwise, we aren’t obligated to make the entire curriculum digital. Even then, some of the platforms we use don’t sync with Schoology, so a Newsela/NoRedInk/Delta Math assignment STILL won’t be accessible in Schoology because you can’t cross post content housed from those applications to Schoology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Sorry for your kid but I cannot plan robust instruction for 130 kids based on what’s most helpful for you and your one kid with executive function issues. That is why he should have a basic skills class instead of study hall so the teacher can work with him on this stuff. What did your parents do back in the days when they couldn’t surveil your every move in school?

If he has an IEP for his executive function disorder you should get it written in there that he can have digital assignments for everything. Otherwise, we aren’t obligated to make the entire curriculum digital. Even then, some of the platforms we use don’t sync with Schoology, so a Newsela/NoRedInk/Delta Math assignment STILL won’t be accessible in Schoology because you can’t cross post content housed from those applications to Schoology.

I'm not asking for the entire curriculum to be digital. I want one place that I can see that an assignment exists with a due date so I can track it down and make sure it's in my kids' organizational system and gets done. We get paper packets for honors math, but our teacher puts the schedule for packet completion in Schoology, so I know it exists, that it made it onto our to-do schedule, and is due. If it's paper, we add a "put in folder" to-do on their list so it goes back to school as well. Same for external resources - some teachers can manage to consistently put an assignment in Schoology with a link to the outside resources and an ability to mark it complete, so clearly it can be done.

I'm very familiar with both the IEP and 504 process, and, with non-SPED teachers, the compliance with it is spotty at best - I then have to decide if I push and end up with a teacher to takes it out on my kid or working things out myself. All I hear is how overworked and under-resourced teachers are, so, as a parent, I try to take responsibility for my kids. This is nigh impossible when I have multiple places to look every single class for assignments to verify my kid put them into our system. I check homework, I find supplemental resources if they're struggling, and I pay for any necessary tutoring and e-function coaching. Help me help you.

My kid is also not the only one out of 130 with e-function issues - out of their friend group, I can think of at least 10 kids who are in the same boat and share resources with their parents. My child is a college-bound honors student who also does competitive band, and I'm not wasting a year on Strategies for Success or forcing them to give up an extracurricular that they love when I can pay for that privately.