Keywords: CK-12, Content, Schoology Aliases: These steps come after you've installed CK-12 (or other app in Schoology) and have added a "material" item into a course. See help doc attached. 

Keywords: Schoology, Rubrics Aliases: Use rubrics to grade course assignments and discussions by measuring performance for your students. Rubrics may be added to the following course materials: Assessments (subjective questions only) Assignments Discussions Tests/Quizzes (Short Answer/Essay Question only) Create Rubrics You can create a custom rubric in the Grade Setup area of a course, or you can create them directly from an assignment or graded discussion and save them in Grade Setup for reuse. You may also create rubrics in your Resources and copy them to any course you administer, and you can copy individual rubrics between courses or to your Resources from the Grade Setup area of your courses. You can add two types of criteria to a rubric: Custom criteria that you add and update manually. Criteria aligned to standardized learning objectives, such as Common Core or state standards. To save a custom rubric to a course: Select Grade Setup in the left menu of the Course Page. In the upper-right corner of the page, click the Add menu in the Scales-Rubrics section and then select Rubric to open the Rubric Editor. Add a Rubric Title. To add custom criteria: Add titles and descriptions for each learning objective. To add additional rows of custom criteria, click +Criteria below the rubric. To add standards-aligned criteria: Click Align Learning Objective below the rubric. Click through the standards browser levels to each desired objective, or type keywords in the search box. When you reach the desired learning objective, click to highlight it, and then click Add Learning Objective to add it as a criteria. To replace the rubric’s grading scale with a custom scale from your course, click Apply Grading Scale in the upper-right corner and then select the desired point-based scale from the menu. Note: You can only apply point-based grading scales to rubrics. You cannot undo this action after completing it. Use the menu items on the upper left to close, expand, or hide the rubric. As you add rows and columns and adjust points scales, the total points available for the rubric update automatically in the Total Pts field. Click Create to complete.   Further customize your rubric To add additional columns to the scale, hover over the cell and click the + icon that appears to the left and right of each cell. To change the points and descriptions for individual grading scale levels, click into their respective fields, and add new ones. To remove a row or column, hover over the cell and click on the x icon that appears in the upper right. To reorder the rows, click on the double bars to the left and drag it to the appropriate location. To create a rubric directly from a course discussion or assignment: Create the discussion or assignment, or click the gear icon to the right and select Edit in the menu to open an existing discussion or assignment. Open the Scale/Rubric menu and select Create New to open the Rubric Editor. Follow the above instructions to create a rubric, starting at step 4, to complete the rubric. Adding Criteria, Learning Objectives, and Grading Scales to Rubrics The first two rows in the Criteria column are standards-aligned criteria. Click +Learning Objectives to add standards-based criteria to your rubric, and track your students' progress on these criteria in Mastery.  The second two rows are custom criteria. Click +Criteria to create your own criteria to add to the rubric. Alternatively, you may choose one of your grading scales from the menu to replace the rubric’s current grading scale. Click Apply Grading Scale in the upper-right corner of the rubric to apply your scale to your rubric. Use Rubrics for Grading Notes: Rubrics cannot be used to grade an entire Test/Quiz or Assessment. Rather, they can be used to evaluate a specific question on a test, such as a short answer question. Only one rubric may be added to a course material or item. It is not possible to add multiple rubrics to one item. To add rubrics to assignments or graded discussions: Create an assignment or graded discussion, or click the gear icon to the right of an existing material and select Edit. Click on the Scale/Rubric menu. Select an existing rubric, or create a new one specific to the graded item. Changing the Overall Score of a Rubric-Graded Assignment You can also change the overall score of the assignment in the rubric without changing any of the scores for the individual criteria — for example, if you need to lower the grade for a late submission, but don’t want student mastery reporting to inaccurately reflect a lack of understanding of a criterion in the rubric. To change the overall score in the rubric, click in the Total Pts cell, and add the new score. After changing the score, a clear override link displays below the score — click this link to revert the score back to the total of the individual criterion scores. Display Rubrics to Students When you add a rubric to a graded item, you'll see the option to Show to students during the editing or creation process. Enable this checkbox to let members of the course view the rubric in the assignment or discussion profile. When your students view the assignment description, the rubric is included with the description.     Edit, Copy, Delete, or Save to Resources When you change an existing rubric, the change applies to the rubric in all the materials that use the rubric throughout the course. If you want to change a rubric for a specific item, we recommend that you create a new rubric instead of adjusting an existing one. Changes made to a rubric do not affect copies of the rubric that you have added to other courses.   To edit a rubric:  Click the name of the rubric in Grade Setup or from the Edit option after clicking the gear icon to the right of the graded item. To add additional columns to the scale, hover over the cell and click on the + icon that displays to the left and right of each cell. To change the points and descriptions for individual grading scale levels, click into their respective fields, and add new ones. To remove a row or column, hover over the cell and click on the x icon that appears in the upper-right. To reorder the rows, click on the double bars to the left and drag the criterion to the desired row. Click Save to save your changes. You can also copy a rubric you’ve created in one course and add it to any other courses in which you’re an Administrator. To copy a rubric and add it to a different course in which you are an Administrator: In Grade Setup, click Rubrics in the Scales/Rubrics area to display a list of all rubrics in your course. Click the gear icon  next to the rubric you want to copy. Select Copy to Course in the menu that displays. In the Copy to menu, click the box next to each course to which you want to copy your rubric. Click Add to add the rubric to each course you selected in the list. To  delete a rubric: In Grade Setup, click Rubrics in the Scales/Rubrics area to display a list of all rubrics in your course. Click the gear icon next to the rubric you want to delete and select Delete. To delete a rubric, it cannot be associated with any graded items. The Delete option is grayed out on the menu for any rubric that is in use in the course. The number of graded items associated with the rubric displays below the rubric name. In the screenshot above, for example, Mixed Rubric is being used in one graded item and Discussion Rubric in two. Once you have removed the rubric from all graded items, click Delete in the menu to remove the rubric from the course. Note: You cannot retrieve rubrics after deleting them from a course. Deleting a rubric is a permanent action. Saving Rubrics In addition to saving your course materials, you can also save individual rubrics to your Resources to reuse in another course, or to share with your Connections. To save an existing rubric to Resources: Click Grade Setup in the left menu of your course. Click Rubrics in the upper-right corner. Click the gear icon to the right of a rubric. Select Save to Resources. Copy Gradebook Settings You can copy grading categories, scales, and rubrics from one course to another course you administer. To copy Gradebook settings: In the upper-right of the course's Grade Setup area, click Copy Settings. Select the options you'd like to copy to another course. Click Submit to complete.

Keywords: Schoology, Curriculum, Integrate, Course, Setup, Functionality, Courses,  Aliases: Schoology Course, Schoology Setup, How-To  Dave Stitt, a Chemistry teacher at Peninsula High School, has woven Schoology into his chemistry curriculum. Below you'll find a video that walks through how he and his students are using Schoology to help facilitate learning. You will notice an older version of the Portal, but focus on the schoology Functions that Dave covers because they are all still applicable.  <span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span> Video Transcript: Dave Stitt provides further insights into using Schoology effectively in his chemistry classroom. Here's the continuation: He discusses the advantages of Schoology for visual learners, as it allows embedding of YouTube videos directly into lessons, providing an engaging and comprehensive learning experience. This feature is especially useful for students who benefit from audio-visual materials. Stitt then explains his approach to practice problems and quizzes. He shows how he sets up practice problems in various difficulty levels, offering students plenty of opportunities to practice and check their understanding with provided answer keys. He emphasizes that practice is not graded, serving purely as a skill-building exercise. For quizzes, Stitt utilizes Schoology’s question bank to create randomized quizzes. This system allows him to pull a set number of random questions from a larger pool, ensuring each quiz is unique and tailored. He also demonstrates how to set up a practice quiz before the actual graded quiz, giving students a sense of the types of questions they might encounter. Regarding the graded quizzes, he details how to set time limits, due dates, and browser lockdown settings to prevent cheating. The quizzes can be customized to allow multiple attempts, with various options for grading these attempts. Lastly, Stitt talks about the assignment submission and grading process in Schoology. He shows how students submit assignments, how these submissions are logged (including late submissions), and how teachers can grade and leave comments on these assignments directly within Schoology. He notes that resubmitted assignments are clearly indicated, making it easier for teachers to keep track. The video concludes with Stitt expressing hope that the tutorial will be helpful and offering his assistance for any further questions. His detailed explanation showcases the versatility of Schoology in managing classroom activities, assignments, and assessments.

Keywords: Schoology, Resources, Collections: Aliases: Share Course Materials This video walks through how you can create a Collection that holds Material Types (Assignments, Pages, Assessments, etc) and how you can share it with other staff members in a way that allows the members to view and add the material to their course as well as add Material types: Here are screenshots with directions: How to Access Resources: Personal Collections How to Access Group Resources: Add a Collection Box How to Share a Collection with other staff Once you have a collection created, you can share the collection with other staff. Set the Share Permission for each person. The default is View Only  

Save your Course Materials to Resources As a course comes to an end, you can save the materials you’ve created to your Resources. This enables you to copy your materials to future courses or share them with other educators. Does this save a “live” version of my course or a copy? Schoology Resources acts as a file storage area: When you save your course it creates a copy of the materials from your course to be used as a template for future courses. There is no sync between the version in your course and the copy in your resources. If you made a change in your course, this does not update the copy in Resources. This works the other direction, too; if you change the copy in Resources, that doesn’t change the original in your Courses. Think of your current course as a written notebook with all your lesson plans. You can take that entire notebook to the copier and make an exact duplicate of all your lesson plans as they exist at that time, and then file that duplicate away for future reference. But if you change your current lesson plans, the duplicate in your file isn’t changed.  Important Notes: Course materials are saved as “templates” to Resources. Other course-specific items, such as members, student submissions, the course profile picture, and calendar events are not saved to resources.  Depending on the number of materials in the course, it may take some time to save the course to Resources. In this case, you will see a message that reads, “Your large operation is currently being executed. You can access a list of your large operations from your Transfer History area.” Check out this article to learn more about Transfer History. If you applied Student Completion Rules (Enterprise only) to your course, the rules are retained when the course is copied to Resources. This also means that when you copy that course content into a new course section, the original rules and sequencing are still in place.  Assignments created with OneDrive Assignments will not be saved to resources due to the items being attached to specific class rosters. Save a Course to Resources If you wish to reuse all the materials you’ve created for the course, use the Save Course to Resources option. To save an entire course’s materials to your Resources: Navigate to the Materials page of the course you’d like to save to Resources. Click Options at the top. Select Save Course to Resources from the drop-down menu. 4. Select the Resource Collection in which you’d like to house your course content. If you haven’t created a collection, you can add the course to your Home collection. 5. Optional: Select a folder within the collection to which you’d like to save your course material. 6. The Save as field indicates that your course materials will be saved in a new folder within the selected destination in your Resources. Within that folder, the materials remain organized in the same structure that was used in the course. 7. Click Submit to complete. Save Individual Materials or Folders to Resources If your course is organized into folders, you can save individual folders and their contents to Resources. Navigate to the Materials page of the course. Click gear icon to the right of the material or folder you’d like to save. Select Save to Resources from the drop-down menu. 4. Select the Resource Collection in which you’d like to house your course content. If you haven’t created a collection, you can add the course to your Home collection. 5. Optional: Select a folder within the collection to which you’d like to save your course materials. 6.If you are saving a folder, you’ll see a list of the materials within the folder that will be saved to your Resources. 7. Click Save Copy to complete. Important Notes: Course materials are saved as “templates” to Resources. Other course-specific items, such as members, student submissions, course profile picture, and calendar events are not saved to resources.  If you applied Student Completion Rules to a folder, the rules are retained when the folder is copied to Resources. This also means that when you copy that folder into a new course section, the original rules and sequencing are still in place. 

How to Assign a Video Lesson on Schoology Go to “Courses” and choose the course you’d like to assign a video lesson. Click on “Materials” in the menu on the left-hand side of your page. In the “Add Materials” drop-down menu, select “Edpuzzle.” This will open a pop-up window showing your “My Content” library on Edpuzzle (or prompting you to log in if you haven't done so already). Select your video lesson by clicking on the video thumbnail, then the blue “Next” button. On the next screen, choose whether you want to prevent skipping or turn on closed captions using the toggle switches next to each option. Click the blue “Assign” button, which will return you to the “Materials” page. Now click on the gear icon to the right of the assignment you've just created and select "Edit." Check the “Enable Grading” box in the pop-up window, select a category for your grades (i.e. homework) and click the blue “Save Changes” button. You can optionally set a due date at this point. (Note: Do NOT enter the consumer key and shared secret in this window as it will create errors for your students.) Now your video lesson is ready for your students on Schoology! Your students will start to appear on your Edpuzzle assignment and class lists as they access their first Edpuzzle assignment link. Best of all, once students complete the lessons their grades will automatically sync with Schoology! Note: If you're a teacher using the Schoology app, please note that you won't be able to view video lessons using a mobile device. You can, however, view them on a tablet. Here’s a quick video tutorial that will walk you through the above steps: