LMs assessment
Artifact Description:
The Schoology Learning Management System is a forum on which students and teachers can conveniently communicate with each other from anywhere and at any time. This group of contributors can be limited to include only one classroom, so that all of the students in the class can collaborate without outside interference.
The LMS incudes a setting for creating groups, so that the teacher could moderate multiple different classes at once. On these groups, the teacher can post updates, upload files, and take polls, depending on what she needs for her students to do for the following day. The teacher can also direct different discussion boards for classes to get involved with.
In order to set up my account on Schoology, I simply created an account, and explored the tools. There are a few hints placed around the sight to prompt the teacher how to use different resources, but from there the teacher can click the buttons and enter the text!
I would direct the students or parents to create an account, then I would either invite them by name, through the email address method, or I would give them the join code so that they could join the group on their own. Once the students have added to the board or completed an assignment, all that I would have to do to check up would be to review the board. Any new additions to the discussion would appear, and I would review those, and get back information to the students in a comment on the discussion.
With the results from this assessment, I could discern what the students understand, and what needs to be reviewed. This would also explain in more detail what exactly needs to be covered again, and in how much depth to go.
This artifact fits into the final three elements of Component 4D of the Danielson Framework. It allows the teacher or the student to monitor the student’s learning, and it also allows the teacher to provide feedback.
This tool had many features that could be very helpful with a little work. Some resources on the site were not clearly labeled, and took longer than would have been convenient to find. In the future, I would use this for my own classroom, and use it to create content that I was more of an expert on, and could better moderate, and include students in the discussion. I could then use it to assign homework, and lead discussions with the class from the convenience of our own homes.
This ties into content from Educational Psychology and Foundations of Teaching as it provides an alternate location for students to learn, thus maximizing learning opportunities.
The Schoology Learning Management System is a forum on which students and teachers can conveniently communicate with each other from anywhere and at any time. This group of contributors can be limited to include only one classroom, so that all of the students in the class can collaborate without outside interference.
The LMS incudes a setting for creating groups, so that the teacher could moderate multiple different classes at once. On these groups, the teacher can post updates, upload files, and take polls, depending on what she needs for her students to do for the following day. The teacher can also direct different discussion boards for classes to get involved with.
In order to set up my account on Schoology, I simply created an account, and explored the tools. There are a few hints placed around the sight to prompt the teacher how to use different resources, but from there the teacher can click the buttons and enter the text!
I would direct the students or parents to create an account, then I would either invite them by name, through the email address method, or I would give them the join code so that they could join the group on their own. Once the students have added to the board or completed an assignment, all that I would have to do to check up would be to review the board. Any new additions to the discussion would appear, and I would review those, and get back information to the students in a comment on the discussion.
With the results from this assessment, I could discern what the students understand, and what needs to be reviewed. This would also explain in more detail what exactly needs to be covered again, and in how much depth to go.
This artifact fits into the final three elements of Component 4D of the Danielson Framework. It allows the teacher or the student to monitor the student’s learning, and it also allows the teacher to provide feedback.
This tool had many features that could be very helpful with a little work. Some resources on the site were not clearly labeled, and took longer than would have been convenient to find. In the future, I would use this for my own classroom, and use it to create content that I was more of an expert on, and could better moderate, and include students in the discussion. I could then use it to assign homework, and lead discussions with the class from the convenience of our own homes.
This ties into content from Educational Psychology and Foundations of Teaching as it provides an alternate location for students to learn, thus maximizing learning opportunities.