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.

Pricing starting from:

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  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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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.

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Markets

Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India and 4 others

Supported Languages

English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish

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  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Features

Total features of Schoology: 54

  • API
  • Academic/Education
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Assessment Management
  • Asynchronous Learning
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Blended Learning
  • Built-in Course Authoring
  • Built-in LMS
  • Certification Management
  • Class Scheduling
  • Classroom Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Communication Management
  • Content Library
  • Corporate/Business
  • Course Management
  • Course Publishing
  • Course Tracking
  • Curriculum Management
  • Faculty/Staff Management
  • For Classroom
  • For Labs
  • Gamification
  • Gradebook
  • Independent/Private
  • K-12
  • Learner Portal
  • Learning Management
  • Learning Paths/Tracks
  • Media Import
  • Mobile Learning
  • Online Calendar
  • Parent Portal
  • Parent/Student Portal
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Remote Access/Control
  • Report Cards
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • SCORM Compliance
  • School District
  • Social Learning
  • Special Education
  • Storyboarding
  • Student Information/Records
  • Support Audio/Images/Video
  • Synchronous Learning
  • Tests/Assessments
  • Transcripts
  • Video Conferencing
  • Virtual Classroom
  • eLearning Companies

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Reviews

Overall rating

4,4 /5
(446)
Value for Money
4,4/5
Features
4,2/5
Ease of Use
4,2/5
Customer Support
4,3/5

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Nick
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 201-500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Number 1 LMS on the Market

Reviewed on 2018/12/17

Overall, I can't imagine my experience both teaching using Schoology and leading professional...

Overall, I can't imagine my experience both teaching using Schoology and leading professional development for teachers without Schoology. It has afforded me an opportunity to totally revamp my district's PD to something more teacher centered, self paced, and differentiated, by putting together an online database of modules tailored to our specific district needs.

Pros

This is hands-down my go-to LMS for education. Having used a variety of LMS programs out there, and having come from some such as Google Classroom, and 3DGameLab, Schoology is top notch. Constantly being updated, Schoology helps transition the focus from the teacher to the student. The best features are Schoology's ability to integrate with other tools, as teachers can embed edtech tools such as Padlet, Polleverywhere, Thinglink, etc into a Schoology assignment using their LTI integration. As they continue to partner with other edtech companies, some of these then become options within their platform. I have used their integrated Conferences, Lock Down Browser, and more. The ability to transition ownership to the students, monitor their work while letting them work at their own pace is truly remarkable and a game-changer in education.

Cons

There are some things I wish were available such as the ability to share an entire folder of contents with an individual student, or to set separate completion rules/dates for assignments within a folder. Not sure why these aren't options. I also think a way to automatically award badges upon completion would really help teachers cut down on time awarding them.

Matthew
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 11-50 Employees
  • Used for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • 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.

Kristin
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: 51-200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Overly complicated, not intuitive, fails to account for what parent and student users need most

Reviewed on 2021/12/21

I hated Schoology at St. Isidore and then when my kids went to high school and they purchased this...

I hated Schoology at St. Isidore and then when my kids went to high school and they purchased this product, I was dumbfounded as to why the administration wanted it. All the parents are confused.
When the App shows me it has new messages/alerts, I open the app, and nothing in the app tells me what is the alert - no "unread" messages, I have NO Idea where to go, so I have to go fishing for it. I don't know what else the product does, but it fails miserably at meeting the key needs of my two children and my needs to oversee how they are doing. My children also do not like this product. They have even been using it for 3+ years. They are in high school now.

Pros

Nothing. Don't know why the administration purchased it. It was not worth the money. Most parents we know can't find anything in there and need multiple trainings.

Cons

Too many features, too many folders, trying to find anything on there is like looking for a needle in a haystack. iI is not intuitive at all - this company needs some apple developers on their staff. Fails to facilitate the most common uses for parents and students, with a focus on easy grade reporting and ease of accessing current assignments and the instructions from the teacher. I can't find anything in here. No parents I know like this software.

Charise
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 11-50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Schoology

Reviewed on 2023/01/08

Just navigating the site can be difficult. Figuring out how to do the assignments on there and...

Just navigating the site can be difficult. Figuring out how to do the assignments on there and entering them is the hardest issue.

Pros

It was nice to have class assignments available right at home and to be able to see how many times the assignment had been tried.

Cons

Teachers never notice if they have emails from the students, it's a little hard to navigate.

Tara
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 11-50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

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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.

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Schoology FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Schoology.

Schoology offers the following pricing plans:

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  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Schoology has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1 000, 1 001-5 000

Schoology supports the following languages:

English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish

Schoology supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

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, Kickboard, LITTERA, LockDown Browser, Lucidchart, Lucidpress, 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, eSchoolPLUS

Schoology offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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