Keywords: Schoology, Overdue Aliases: Important Information for Teachers For graded materials to display in your students’ Overdue area, all of the following must be true:  Materials are visible to students. Hidden or unpublished materials do not appear in the Overdue area. You have enabled Submissions for Assignments.   You have not locked Submissions for Assignments. You have assigned the course material to a Category. Course materials must meet these conditions to display in the Overdue area, to trigger Notification emails, or to be included in the Parent Email Digest.  Note: LTI and External Tool materials with due dates do not trigger Overdue Submissions because Schoology does not automatically detect submissions from external tools. For more information on setting up Overdue Notification: HOW DO STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS RECEIVE OVERDUE NOTIFICATIONS? Overdue Area The Overdue area on the right side of the homepage displays a list of materials that they did not turn in on time. It appears for students who have at least one item that they did not submit before the posted due date. Overdue materials are listed from most- to least-overdue, with the most-overdue item at the top. Note: The Overdue area appears on the homepage only, it cannot be enabled at the course-level. Overdue Submissions in Courses with Subperiods If a course is associated to a year-long grading period that contains sub-periods ("1st Semester" and "2nd Semester," for example) and the student does not make a submission to an assignment posted in the first semester, the student will continue to see this item in the Overdue pane going into the second semester. This is because the course is associated to a year-long course with sub-periods and the course has not yet archived.  Notifications Settings To receive email or text notifications for overdue materials, course members can enable the Course Materials Overdue option in the Notifications area. Select On in the dropdown menu to receive notifications for overdue materials in all your courses, or select Custom and choose the courses for which you want overdue notifications. Note: While the item may remain in the Overdue pane, students and parents will receive only one notification per late material regardless of how long it remains unsubmitted. 

Keywords: Schoology, Student, Assignment, Annotation Aliases: Student Annotations  Instructors Instructors can create an assignment that allows students to annotate a file. This feature allows teachers to provide an attachment as part of the assignment without downloading or uploading it multiple times or assigning it individually to students.  This assignment type provides students with the following annotation options: Add a text box Add shapes, for example, circle, square, or rectangle Highlight parts of the attachment  Pen tool for drawing and writing Note: Type annotations, for example, underline, highlight, and squiggly will only work for text within an uploaded document. Type annotations will not work on images, even if the image is of text. Creating an Annotations Assignment From your course, click Add Materials. Select Add Assignment.  Under Format Options, click Annotations Assignment.  Upload a file from your device.  Note: Accepted file types: Docx, HTML, JPG, PDF, PNG, PPTX, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, and XML. Fill in the rest of the Create form. Click Create. Reviewing or Grading an Annotations Assignment After a student has submitted their assignment, the instructor can review and grade it from the class assignment.  In the Submissions area, select Needs Grading. Review the student's responses. Type a grade into the Grade box. Add notes for the student in the available text box. Check whether or not you want the grade and notes to Show to the student. Click Submit. Students Student Annotations offer students a new assignment experience; however, the student display and available options can vary at the elementary and secondary grade levels. From within the assignment, click: Elementary: Draw or Type Secondary: Start Assignment Annotate the file from the Doc Viewer using the annotation tools available in the editor. Changes are automatically saved.  When you are finished, click the following: Elementary: I'm Done  Secondary: Submit Optionally, to clear annotations, click Clear All. Then, click Clear All again to confirm. To go back without saving, click Back. Students who have submitted their work can select the assignment again to review their submission. Elementary Options Continue Assignment  Students who have not submitted their assignment can resume working where they left off. Click into the assignment.  Click Continue. Continue annotating the assignment.  Click Previous Submission to revert to a previous submission of the assignment. Click Open Submission to confirm the reversal. Click Stay Here to keep annotating the current version. Try Again After Submitting A student can return to an assignment if an instructor wants the student to try the assignment again. Click on the assignment. Click Try Again.  Continue annotating the assignment. Previous annotations will still display. Secondary Options Edit Draft Students who have not submitted their assignment can resume working where they left off.  Click into the assignment. Click Edit Draft.  Continue annotating the assignment. Click Back to exit the assignment Re-Submit Assignment A student can return to an assignment if an instructor wants the student to try the assignment again. Click on the assignment. Click Re-Submit Assignment.  Continue annotating the assignment. Previous annotations will still display.

Keywords: Group, Groups, Schoology, Create, Creating, Creation Aliases: Group, Group Permissions, Group Creation, Schoology Group, How-To All staff members have the ability to create groups in Schoology. When creating a group, it is important to understand the permission assigned to the individual group. The video below will walk you through the process of creating a group, help you learn more about the various permission options, and how teachers and/or students can access the group.  <span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span><span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span> More Tips and Tricks:  By default, any member can post updates. If you are a group administrator, you can limit this ability to only other group administrators. To do so, follow these steps: Click Groups in the top menu and select a group you administer. Go to Group Options in the left menu of the group page and click Edit Privacy/Group Settings. Click All Members in the Post group updates row to enable or disable this feature. Click Save Changes to complete. For Instructions on how your students can join groups, please refer to this link: https://psd401.freshservice.com/support/solutions/articles/6000006023 Please call Help Desk at (253) 530-3711 if you have any questions or are needing assistance. 

Keywords: Feedback, Schoology, Comments, Grades Aliases: Add Comments Directly in Gradebook To leave a comment: Hover your pointer over a cell and click the Comment icon: Type your message in the pop-up window that displays. Check the box to Display to Student (optional). This must be selected for the comment to appear on the Student Grade Report. Your comment saves automatically; click the x in the upper-right of the pop-up to close the comment: The comment icon displays for all cells to which you've added a comment. Note: Comments and exceptions appear in the student grade report, which you can open from the Graph icon to the right of the student's name. Comments for grading periods and the overall column also appear on student report cards unless you have selected the Hide overall grade from student reports and/or hide grading period grade from student reports check boxes in the course Grade Setup area. Student/Parent view of Grade Comment For students, the Grades area of the course profile displays grades for the assignments, tests/quizzes, and discussions within a course. When an item is graded by the instructor, the grades and comments will immediately display in this area. The overall grade for the course is listed at the bottom of each page. Item submission Instructor comment Course grade Note: Depending on the settings in place at your school, this area and some of its contents may not be available to you. Contact your instructor with any questions about which grades appear to students in this area. Give Feedback and Grade from the Document Viewer You can access an ungraded assignment from the Reminders section on your Home page. The grade entered in the Grade field of the Document Viewer will automatically sync with your gradebook. The comments you add in this form will also automatically sync with the gradebook. Toggle between submissions by students in the course. Toggle between revisions submitted by the selected student. Access Annotation Tools. Download the submission as a file. Grade the current submission and provide a comment (syncs with the gradebook). Provide feedback and upload files back to the student. Add Feedback Directly to Question Responses in Assessments You can provide feedback on each students' responses to help students improve their outcomes. See this for more information about how:   GRADE BY QUESTION FOR ASSESSMENTS

Keywords: Calendar, Events, Create, Schoology Aliases: Create Events - Schoology calendar help page Events can be created in various areas of Schoology (e.g. home page, course profile, group profile). You can only create events in a course or group if you are the administrator for the course or group. The quickest way to create an event is from Recent Activity on your home page. Option 1 — Create an event from the home page Click Recent Activity on the home page. Click Event from the Post options at the top of Recent Activity. Select a start date under When, and enter an optional start time. Click Add End Time in the upper-right to add an optional End Date and End Time. Enter a Title for the event. Enter an optional Description of the event. Attach a File, Link, Resources or Audio/Video Recording from the bottom ribbon of the rich text editor. Select an RSVP option. You can set it to Disabled, Only invitees can RSVP, and Anyone can RSVP (public event). Under Options, click the Comments icon to enable/disable comments. In the Post to... field, enter where you want to post the event to. You can enter a course, group school building or your personal profile. Click the search icon to select the areas. You can post to as many areas as you want by checking these areas from the list and click Select. Click Create to complete. Option 2 — Create an event from a course or group Navigate to the desired course or group profile. Click Add Event in the Upcoming panel on the right. Select a start date under When, and enter an optional start time. Click Add End Time to add an optional End Date and End Time. Enter a Title for the event. Enter an optional Description of the event. Attach a File, Link, Resources or Audio/Video Recording from the bottom ribbon of the rich text editor. Select an RSVP option. You can set it to Disabled, Only invitees can RSVP, and Anyone can RSVP (public event). RSVP options: Disabled: Requires no RSVP. This event is visible to you and/or members. Only Invitees Can RSVP: Event remains personal or allows for RSVP from connections or members. Anyone Can RSVP: Event becomes public (event profile is visible to anyone. Only members of the course, group or school can RSVP). Under Options, click the Comments icon to enable/disable comments. Click the Copy icon to copy the event to your other courses. You can post to as many courses as you want by checking these courses from the list. Note: You can copy events to courses only. There is not a way to copy events to groups. Click Create to complete. Recurring Events Events that occur more than once can be created with the Repeat option. To create a recurring event: When creating or editing an event, select a recurring option from the Repeat dropdown menu: Note: The default recurring option for events is Never. Never: The event is a one-time occurrence. Daily: The event repeats daily. Every weekday: The event repeats on the same weekday every week. Weekly: The event repeats once a week on the same day of the week as the original event. Monthly: The event repeats once a month on the same date as the original event. Monthly on the selected weekday: The event repeats once a month on the same day of the week as the original event (e.g. the third Monday of each month). If the original event date is not available for a subsequent month, the event will appear on the closest day to the original day of the month (for example, if the recurrence is set monthly for August 31st, the next month's recurrence will be September 30th). Set a date to end the recurring event in the Untildrop-down menu. Note: The maximum duration for recurring events is one calendar year. If you select an end date with a longer duration, the recurring event will automatically end after one calendar year. Fill in the remainder of the event details as you would a non-recurring event and click Save Changes to complete. Edit an Event There are two methods in order to modify an existing event. You can edit the title, description, time/date of your events, RSVP settings, add content, formatting, and more. Note: It is not possible to edit the Repeat field in a recurring event. If you wish to change the recurrence, delete the series and recreate the event with the desired recurrence. Option 1 — Edit an event from the calendar Click the Calendar icon in the header at the top of Schoology. Click the event. Click Edit Item. Edit the necessary info. Click Save Changes to complete. Option 2 — Edit an event from the upcoming area Click the event. Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Edit. Edit the necessary info. Click Save Changes to complete. To edit a recurring event: If you wish to edit a recurring event, there are three edit options available: Just this event: Edit the individual event only. This event and future events: Edit the individual event and subsequent events in the series. All events in the series: Edit every event in the series, including past events. Invite Guests To invite people to your event, the event must have RSVP enabled (Only invitees can RSVP and Anyone can RSVP). To invite people to an event: Click on the event from the calendar or upcoming area. Click +Invite Other Guests in the upper-right of the event profile page. Type a name in the search field or use the drop-down on the right to select your school building(s) or Connections to view a full list of guests to invite. Select names from the search result. Click Invite Guests to send the invite. RSVP options: Disabled: Requires no RSVP. This event is visible to you and/or members. Only Invitees Can RSVP: Event remains personal or allows for RSVP from connections or members. Anyone Can RSVP: Event becomes public (event profile is visible to anyone. Only members of the course, group, or school can RSVP). Notes: If you create an event with RSVP from your personal calendar, you can invite people manually from the event profile. If you create an event with RSVP from a course or group calendar, then the course or group members are automatically invited. If you invite guests to an event that is part of a recurring event, the invite is applicable to the single event only, not the entire series of events. Delete Events Events can be deleted from any area in which they appear in Schoology (e.g. home page, course profile, group profile) by the person who created it, the course/group administrator, and the system administrator. To delete an event, follow these steps: From the calendar on the home page, course profile, group profile, or school profile: Select the calendar icon at the top of Schoology from the home page or the calendar iconin your course, group or school profile page. Click on the event you wish to delete. Click View Item. Click the gear icon in the upper-right of the item page. Select Delete from the drop-down. Click Delete to confirm. From the Upcoming area of the home page, course, group or school profile: Click the event listed under the Upcoming area. Click the gear icon in the upper-right of the item page. Select Delete from the drop-down. Click Delete to confirm. Note: If you unpublish a course material with a due date, the item will no longer appear in the calendar. Once you publish the item, it will re-appear in the calendar. To delete a recurring event: If you wish to delete a recurring event, there are two delete options available: Delete this event: Delete the individual event only. Delete all events: Delete the entire series of events. Color-Code Calendar Your personal calendar displays all personal, school, group, and course items by default. Each calendar item is color-coded depending on the affiliation to which it belongs (courses, groups, school, or personal). To customize the color associated with each calendar, follow these steps: Click All Calendars at the top of the calendar. Click on a calendar and select a color from the chart that appears to the right. Filter the Calendar By default, the personal calendar displays all school, course, and group calendars. You can use the same area used to color-code the calendar to filter the calendar to more specific views. To filter the calendar view: Click All Calendars at the top of the calendar. Check the box to the left of the calendar you'd like to view. Importing a Different Calendar into Schoology You can import a calendar file from a different calendar tool - such as Outlook Calendar, Apple Calendar or Google Calendar - into your Schoology calendar. Note: Importing a third-party calendar into Schoology is a one-time event. After the import, changes you make in that third-party calendar will not update the events in Schoology. All changes will need to be made directly in the Schoology calendar. Step 1 — Export the third-party calendar To import a third-party calendar into Schoology, you will need to first generate an ICS file. From your Outlook Calendar: In Outlook Calendar, select a calendar to make it the active calendar in the view. On the File menu, click Save As. Type a name for the iCal file in the File name text box. A summary of the calendar name, date range, and detail level appears next to More Options. If you are satisfied with the summary, proceed to step 6, otherwise continue with step 4. Click More Options. From the Date Range list, choose the amount of calendar data to include in Schoology, or click Specify dates to enter a custom date range Note: There is a limit of 1,000 events for the Schoology calendar. If you choose a large date range or select the whole calendar, your file may be too large. Click Ok and then click Save to save the ICS file. From Apple Calendar: Open the Calendar App. Click the File menu. Select Export, then choose Export... Name your calendar file and click Export to save the ICS file. From Google Calendar: Open Google Calendar. (You can only export from a computer, not a phone or tablet.) In the top right, click the Settings icon and Settings. Click Import & export. Click Export. Click Export to confirm. A ZIP file will be downloaded to your computer. If you open the ZIP file, you'll see individual ICS files for each of your calendars. Step 2 — Import the file to a Schoology calendar Once you've downloaded your ICS file using the steps above, log into your Schoology account and follow these steps to import the file to your Personal, Course/Group or School Calendar. To add these events to your Personal calendar: Click Calendar icon at the top of Schoology. At the bottom of the Schoology calendar, click Import. Click Attach File and locate the ICS file you exported to upload. Click Import. You will now see the events from your external calendar appearing on your personal Schoology calendar. To add these events to a Course or Group calendar: Select the course or group from your Courses or Group drop-down menu in the Schoology header. On the right side of the course or group, click the calendar icon in the Upcoming area. At the bottom of the calendar, click Import. Click Attach File and locate the ICS file you exported to upload. Click Import. To add these events to a School calendar: Click your name as it appears in the upper right corner of Schoology. Select the school from the drop-down list. From the school profile, click the calendar icon in the Upcoming area. At the bottom of the calendar, click Import. Click Attach File and locate the ICS file you exported to upload. Click Import. Note: You must have appropriate permissions in order to import calendars to a school. The maximum ICS file size is 100MB per file. The maximum amount of events that can be imported is 1,000. You can also add your Schoology calendar to an external calendar so that changes you make in Schoology automatically update in your other calendar. For instructions on how to link your Schoology calendar to a different calendar, click here.

Keywords: Schoology, Graded, Assignments, Comment Aliases: How students see grading comments on graded assignments in Schoology help doc. See attached. 

Keywords: Archived, Schoology, Missing, Courses Aliases: Courses are associated with grading periods in Schoology. At the end of the grading period, the course will be archived. The course will no longer display in the Courses list, making room for new courses. When a course is archived, Course Admins with permission to view archived courses can view the course in the Archived area of My Courses indefinitely. Seven days prior to the end of a grading period, you may see a message at the top of Schoology with a warning that the grading period will end. In the course profile, you may also see a message at the top of the course with details regarding the approaching end-date. After the end date of the grading period, courses are not archived until a 24 to 30-hour grace period has passed. If a course you administer has disappeared from the Courses, it may have been archived. Important Notes: No course content or enrollments will be lost during the archival process. Students will be able to see Archive Course in the same way as instructors after the archived date. Instructors can still enter grades in archived courses however, you will need to contact your office manager/registrar to updates scores in PowerSchool after the final grading date has passed. Archived courses are not accessible from the Schoology iOS or Android apps. To view archived courses: Click Courses at the top of the page. Click My Courses on the right. From the My Courses area, click Archived to view past courses. If you'd like to reactivate an archived self-created course and keep the same course material and roster of students for a longer period of time, extend the life of the course by adding a grading period. You may not reactive PowerSchool-created courses but may access the materials. If you are not seeing a course in Archived, check Deleted Courses. Please contact the Help Desk if you have a PowerSchool-created course that was deleted accidentally.

Keywords: Schoology, Password Aliases: In order for PSD staff or students to use Schoology's mobile app on a cell phone or tablet, one must "update" their password online through the portal/web. Please login to the PSD Portal page, then click Schoology and follow the directions below. After updating your password there (in Schoology's PSD landing page), you'll be able to access Schoology on a mobile app.  STEP 1 Log on to the PSD Portal, click the Schoology button, and in the Schoology landing page click the pull-down menu near your name, and pick Account Settings.                                  STEP 2 Scroll down to the segment called “Account Password”. Even though you aren’t really going to “change” your password (because you are really just telling Schoology what your PSD password is), please click on “Change your password”. You will then put your PSD Password into the “New Password” field and the “Confirm Password” field. Then press Submit. Now you should be able to login to your Schoology account on mobile apps. 1. 2. 3                              

Keywords: Schoology, Discussions Aliases: Discussions are a great way to build community in your classroom. This solution will show you how to create and manage a discussion. There are also videos with suggestions on how to use discussions to support learning. Creating Discussions You can create an interactive Discussion for your students. Each Discussion has threaded commenting that allows students to respond to any post by another student. These comments can also be moderated, which will require a Course Admin (the teacher) to approve each post before it is published. Deleted posts will are listed under Moderate Posts in the Course Options in the left column of the Course Profile. To create a discussion, follow these steps: Click Add Materials Select Add Discussion. Fill out the Discussion form. Enter a Description (optional instructions for the Discussion). To have the Discussion appear in the Upcoming feed, enter a Due Date. If you do not enter a Due Date, the Discussion will remain accessible in the Discussions index or Course Folder. To make the Discussion a graded item, check Enable Grading and adjust the grading preferences. Options Use Individually Assign (Enterprise only) to only display the discussion to a specific member of a course or a grading group. Add Learning Objectives to add a custom learning objective, common core, or state standard. Once you have aligned your material with learning objectives, use the Mastery tool to track your students' progress. Lock prevents students from posting in the discussion. You may want to lock the discussion after the due date has passed. Published enables you to display or hide the discussion from your students. Members can see other responses before participating: You can decide if students are able to see their peers' responses before they post. If this is enabled, the other students' posts will be greyed out: You may choose this option to encourage originality in your students' posts. Shared Discussion: Enables sharing the discussion with other courses. Shared discussions cannot be graded. Copy to Course: Click this to simultaneously create this discussion in another section you administer Click Create to complete. Note: Discussions can also be created within course folders, or added to folders after their creation. Back to top Sharing Discussions Click Here to see our article on Shared Discussions You can share your ungraded discussion with other courses. This option is located in the Advanced options at the bottom of the popup window when creating a discussion. Sharing the discussion will give the discussion a ShareID that other instructors can use to join their classes into the same discussion. You can also automatically share the discussion with your courses and sections. Limitations of Shared Discussions: If you do not see the option to share the discussion under Advanced, it is likely that Grading is enabled. Graded discussions cannot be shared with other courses. You cannot share discussions after they have been created. Shared discussions are not available across linked sections. Back to top Reading Discussion Posts Course admins and students see the discussion toolbar, which floats at the top of the discussion as you scroll through the posts. The toolbar includes the following tools: Post Count and Unread Posts The Post Count displays the total number of posts and replies on the discussion. The Unread Posts displays the number of posts and replies that have been added since you last loaded the page. Note: Opening a discussion on the mobile app does not affect the Unread Posts count. Posts that you read while logged into the Schoology mobile app will still be marked as unread the next time you log in to the web version. Unread Posts are highlighted in orange on the right side of the post, such as in the example below: Expand All and Collapse All On very long discussions, you may find it useful to use Collapse All to make the page easier to scan and to find posts more quickly. Clicking Collapse All truncates all posts and hides all replies to each post. To expand the text on a particular post, click Read More next to where the post is truncated. To show the replies on a particular post, click View Replies below the post. To display all posts and all replies, click Expand All. Scroll to Top When you are finished reading the latest posts by your students, you can quickly jump back to the top of the discussion in one click by clicking the Scroll to Top icon in the toolbar: Formatting Posts Sometimes, students opt to draft their discussion posts in another program — such as Microsoft Word or another text editor — and then copy and paste the response into the Schoology discussions post field. Copying and pasting can sometimes bring in unwanted formatting from another program. If this happens, encourage your students to use the new Remove Formatting button in the post field. Back to top Grading Discussion Posts Highlight User Click Highlight User to filter posts by author. Clicking Highlight User displays a list of members in the course, accompanied by the number of posts each member has contributed to this discussion. The total posts appear in green, and the number of posts you have not yet read appears in orange. Students who have not yet posted to the discussion appear at the bottom of the drop-down menu under Not Submitted. Selecting a student from the drop-down menu highlights all of the posts that student has created in this discussion, allowing you to see all of the discussion posts by a particular student at a glance. Unread Posts Discussions are one of the most dynamic course material types on Schoology. To help you stay organized and keep track of the posts you haven’t seen yet while grading students’ posts to a discussion, you can now see the number of unread posts on a discussion right from the Course Materials page. The number of unread posts appears in orange next to the discussion’s title. Administering Discussions Course Admins have a star icon next to their names on discussion posts. This helps students see at a glance which posts may be directions or feedback from the instructor, and which are from their fellow students. To delete or edit students' posts: Hover to the far right of the post and click the three vertical dots. Click Edit or Delete. Click Delete to confirm or enter your change and click Save Changes. Grading Students who have not yet received a grade for the discussion have the grading button and orange indicator next to their post. Clicking the grading button brings up the grading window, where you are able to enter a grade and a comment for the student. This grade applies to all of the students' posts on the discussion, not just the one you have selected. How to Use Discussion - Example of how students would interact and respond

Keywords: Schoology, Templates Aliases: Schoology has created a number of Course Templates you can use for inspiration in organizing materials and content as well as copy directly to any of your courses.  You will find the Course Templates in the PSD Schoology Forum: https://psd401.schoology.com/group/1917525011/materials#/group/1917525011/materials?f=150650015