Schoology allows for schools to create personal social networks amongst individual classrooms and grade levels. For the classroom, teachers are able to mark attendance, create assessments for students to take online, and communicate with parents. As for the grade levels, there are several opportunities for teachers to collaborate electronically. First, teachers can create blogs to communicate and RSS feeds to others to discuss best teaching practices. Secondly, they are able to create and share lesson plans and online assessments for all students to take. After taking the online tests, schoology can generate reports based upon student's performance. The teachers can evaluate and discuss data online.
This Web 2.0 site verifies whether or not you are an employee of your school. Once you have been verified, you can set up your school's network that will allow for a school wide data sharing and communication warehousing. With grades and reports being open for administration and the entire grade level to see, teachers will no longer have to print out weekly, monthly assessment reports. Information sharing can be made in real-time which will lead to more effective and faster decision making.
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