Schoology Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Intuitive UI: Navigate a clean and easy-to-use interface for quick onboarding and easy adoption across organizations. Lets students move through lessons more naturally with instructional tools designed for K-12 usage.
• Web Conferencing: Offers a virtual conferencing system with video capabilities for long-distance learning, parent-teacher conferences, questions, additional tutoring and other cases where one-on-one instruction is needed.
• Collaboration: Create communication channels, make and join groups, curate group content libraries, share resources within a course and more. Access a public content library of assignments, tests and lessons from other educators. The content is great for educators looking for additional materials. Connect with a professional learning community where faculty can get help from other educators, coaches and education thought leaders.
• Data and Analytics: Analyze multiple metrics to test the effectiveness of courses, lessons and quizzes. Gauge student engagement and performance data to conduct high-level research. Examine data at the class, institution or district level and turn metrics into an action plan to address problem areas. Standardize the metrics and tests to ensure a more fair comparison. Gather reliable information to inform policy. Build assessments or download tests that were built by multiple individuals or sourced from the larger community. Check curriculum against different standards such as Common Core, NGSS and others while identifying gaps in learning and skills.
• Instructor Feedback: Give learners immediate feedback after tests and quizzes. Understand where learners are competent as well as areas that need more attention. Leave comments for teachers as well to better coordinate learning.
• Course Management: Manage and develop courses and necessary materials like assignments, quizzes, tests, assessments and more. Assign due dates for assignments and activities. Create text lessons and then embed materials from Google Drive, Microsoft Office, YouTube and other places for better learner engagement.
• Personalized Instruction Track students individually or in groups with different learning methods. See what works and what doesn’t for each student, and design a path that plays to their strengths.
• Single Sign-On: Cut down on password management and long log-in times with an SSO. Help organizations that have multiple apps integrated into the solution. Makes adoption easier since administrators and learners can navigate it more easily.
• Mobile App: Allow learners, educators and administrators to work on the go. Grade, message, learn and communicate through the app. For grading, the UI makes it easier to swipe between assignments, manage edits and filter by lateness. Inspect performance next to rubrics and use comments and annotations for written and video feedback.
• Integrations: Access over 200 apps already integrated into the program. This includes external sites, games, authoring tools and student information systems. Enable easier movement between programs, cutting down on loading times. Link programs such as Aeries, BrainPOP, Edpuzzle, Google Drive, Khan Academy, OneDrive, Scrible, Skyward, Vimeo and more to the tech stack.
• Interoperability: Use published content from other vendors like McGraw Hill, CK12 and others. Find content that’s compliant with LTI, QTI, Common Cartridge and SCORM should integrate easily. Automate passing data between an SIS and other systems for data consistency. Plug in a variety of custom options with the program’s open API.
• Assessment Management: Store and use high-level assessments within the workflow from one centralized location. Create a more in-depth analysis of the creation of personalized teaching. It provides an assessment management platform to control testing distribution and analysis across districts. Access a broader learning community allows teachers to collaborate and improve the ways they measure progress.
• Enterprise Administration: Give administrators a higher level of control. Manage roles, permission, privacy grading and more. See system analytics, extract data, develop and share centralized resources and create custom SSOs, URLs, logos and colors.
• Enterprise Integrations: Let users make courses, accounts and enrollments from SIS data and give them all functionality from the core program. Integrate with grade books and over 100 third-party educational apps. Import content that follows IMS Global LTI and Common Cartridge standards
• Enterprise Class Management: Access additional resources to help and develop courses. This can record audio and video into assignments, comments and testing. It can also create an online portfolio to show off student work, view materials on mobile and use technology-enhanced testing. Last, it provides mastery reports to measure learner progress against national, state or institution goals.
• Enterprise Communications: Connect all faculty in departmental, PD or other groups to encourage collaboration and sharing across more than 130 countries. Give advisors access to their students’ attendance, enrollments, schedule and grades. Parents can see overdue notifications and get email summaries of their children’s activity. The solution can also send messages to the entire system in an instant.

Limitations

• Limited functionality and higher cost on individual apps in free version
• Upload an unlimited number of files but only 512 MB per file
• During March and April of 2020, the platform had difficulty adjusting to high traffic and initially experienced a slew of errors

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