Schoology
About Schoology
Schoology seamlessly connects learning management with assessments so that school districts can improve student performance, foster collaboration throughout their community, and personalize learning for every student. Every day millions of students, parents, faculty and administrators from nearly 2,000 K-12 school districts leverage Schoology to advance what is possible in education.
Key benefits of Schoology
Instructor Tools
Schoology's versatile platform empowers instructors with dynamic course creation and management tools, a global community for sharing resources and best practices, and comprehensive analytics for free.
Curriculum Management
The flexible, connected nature of Schoology's interface facilitates unique curriculum management. Utilizing standards-compatible content creation, sharing, and tracking, we provide in-depth oversight that allows for greater focus toward meeting student needs and improving student outcomes.
Global Learning Community
Arguably the most useful resource an instructor can have, our Global Learning Community provides access to resources, professional development, best practices, and personal experiences from passionate instructors locally and around the world.
Analyze Hard Data
With an automatically updating online grading system and performance-based analytics, all the important data required to tailor lessons for a more effective education is presented in an easily read and relevant fashion.
Collaborate and Improve
Schoology's Resource Center and Groups allow you to collaborate with other instructors in a local-to-global community. Share instructional resources, best practices, personal experiences, and more to help each other improve instruction.
Expand Engagement
Schoology's mobile apps not only provide you important classroom management abilities with mobile freedom, they can easily transform any course into a 1:1, fully engaged experience with little (if any) cost by investing in mobile technologies or holding BYOD days.
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- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Transforming the Digital Space
Reviewed on 2018/09/07
Schoology has enabled me to create a digital platform for my students to access whenever and...
Schoology has enabled me to create a digital platform for my students to access whenever and however they need. Being a traveling teacher has its own unique set of obstacles, but Schoology has empowered me to bring my in-person style and flare to the digital space. I no longer feel as I am scatted around multiple classrooms. Each of my digital classrooms are organized in the same manner so there is a sense of structure to my instruction, just like a physical space would allow.
Pros
I love that I can use Schoology as a vehicle to personalization--personalization for student learning and personalization for my instruction. I am able to add/delete assignments for students. I can create assignments for specific groups of students. It is easier to use the same rubric for similar assignments because the rubric is already built and saved. I can deliver lessons in various methods. My instruction and assessment have become more transparent (and more fair!) for students due to these features.
Cons
The features that I most dislike about Schoology revolve around the integrations with Google Drive and TurnItIn. While I have long applauded the Google integration, I detest that the Google assignments (when submitted through this integration) are not time stamped. Also, my colleagues and I have found TurnItIn to be a bit more complicated than necessary to use. It is not intuitive, and rather difficult to explain to students. I often end up not using it.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Effective LMS for Online Instruction
Reviewed on 2020/07/14
I have used Schoology in my classroom for the past four school years. Prior to that, I had tried...
I have used Schoology in my classroom for the past four school years. Prior to that, I had tried Moodle, Blackboard and Edmodo for use with my students. Schoology has been the most intuitive to understand and set up. It helps students easily find resources and allows me to integrate numerous online tools, meeting all of my needs as a classroom teacher. This year, our district has moved to requiring us to use Canvas, which really put just how easy and functional Schoology is into perspective for me.
Pros
Schoology is very intuitive for teachers, students and parents providing an easy to use learning management system for all.
Cons
Using the free, non-enterprise, version doesn't provide teachers with student access analytics.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Terrible app even worse customer service
Reviewed on 2019/05/08
Terrible app with even worse customer service
Terrible app with even worse customer service
Pros
It was easy to manage my son's schooling.
Cons
It's clunky you have to go in and out to see different grades instead of being under one easy tab. Don't even think of forgetting your password. There is no reset function available and when you ask for help you get a super snarky email. I will copy and paste
Hi Cmac0521,
We are no longer accepting ticket submissions from Basic users. Helpdesk ticketing support is a feature of our Enterprise subscription. You can see what’s included in Enterprise here.
To support our millions of free (Basic) users, we have invested in providing you easy access to better support resources, like the newly launched Schoology Guide Center. We also recommend visiting the Schoology Help Center where you can access a wealth of information about Schoology as well as engage with our member Community.
Not sure if you’re a ‘Basic’ account holder? Instructors: if you see the word “Upgrade” in the upper left corner of your Schoology account of your account - that means you’re Basic! Parents and Students: check with your instructor!
Sincerely,
Schoology Support
Basically "you didn't pay we don't want to help you, go annoy the school. You're Basic LOL" - Schoology "customer service"
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Clutch for shifting to online learning
Reviewed on 2020/12/09
Overall, Schoology was a lifesaver. We experimented with different products but really enjoyed the...
Overall, Schoology was a lifesaver. We experimented with different products but really enjoyed the controls we had as instructors. In a time when the pandemic hit, we were struggling to find the application that worked best for us and this ended up being the perfect fit. It was a huge bonus that it came free and that we were able to find a testing software to continue our online education. Kudos!
Pros
The features that made choosing Schoology the most impactful was that it was free, had many controls as a course instructor and created safeguards for academic integrity. It had more controls to avoid cheating, created amazing supports for test writing (test bank, fill-in-the-blank, mix-and-match, time allotment, weighting etc.). It was very user friendly in that it created items that we used in in-person teaching and made life so much easier!
Cons
My co-teacher and I had a hard time figuring out how to prevent students from receiving their grades right after submitting their exams. I'm sure it was a matter of deep diving more, but in our scenario of first-time users, the students received their final grades after their final exam rather than giving us a few minutes to explore the stats and realize if we needed to drop questions or not.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Virtual Learning Experts
Reviewed on 2020/12/18
Schoology was chosen as our program for virtual learning from home during the COVID pandemic. As a...
Schoology was chosen as our program for virtual learning from home during the COVID pandemic. As a teacher, I was overwhelmed at first, but caught on quickly. Now, I use Schoology to upload lessons, create tests and quizzes, and even upload YouTube read-alouds for student viewing. It has been a vital resource to allow me to connect with my students.
Pros
Schoology seems overwhelming at first, but is pretty easy to catch on to once you start to upload material. There are plenty of user guides and how-to tips available on their website to help out as well. Schoology allows me to teach lessons virtually to my students during the pandemic.
Cons
It is a little more complicated to upload some things such as google forms to the site.
Schoology FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Schoology.Q. What type of pricing plans does Schoology offer?
Schoology offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$0.01/year
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Schoology?
Schoology has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Schoology support?
Schoology supports the following languages:
English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Q. Does Schoology support mobile devices?
Schoology supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Schoology integrate with?
Schoology integrates with the following applications:
Blackboard Learn, Blink Session, Canva, Carnegie Learning, Conferences io, Copyleaks, Dropbox Business, Edpuzzle, Evernote Teams, Google Classroom, Google Drive, LITTERA, LockDown Browser, Lucidchart, McGraw-Hill Connect, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Teams, Mindomo, OneDrive, Pear Deck, Piazza, PowerSchool, PowerSchool Unified Classroom, Scholastico, ScreenPal, Shmoop, Soundtrap, Vedamo Virtual Classroom, Vimeo, WeVideo
Q. What level of support does Schoology offer?
Schoology offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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