By Michael Hart
09/29/16 on Campus Technology
Carlow University in Pittsburgh is replacing its legacy learning management system (LMS) with one new to the higher ed market. Read full article here.
By Ned Kirsch
09/01/2016 on EdSurge
…The data on its own was crystal clear. Teachers and students liked both Canvas and Schoology. However, what turned the tide in favor of Schoology was the company’s marketing. Read more here.
by The Edvocate
08/2016
…I’ve was recently able to demo Schoology, a learning management system that enables teachers with the tools to create learning content, organize lesson plans, communicate with students, collaborate with other teachers/administrators/parents, and manage the entire learning process. Read more here.
by Nichole Osinski
08/19/2016 on The Spectrum
…District schools use a learning management system called Schoology to provide students with more of a flipped classroom experience. Read more here.
By Jessica Martinez
08/05/2016 on Houston Chronicle
…Schoology:This class management app lets teachers design lessons, encourage student participation, and upload content. According to Summit High School teacher Michael Rubio, Schoology is a great app because he can “create reviews of content and allows students to take mock assessments without having to deal with paper and pencil tests or fuzzy maps and graphics that lead to student frustration in a monochromatic presentation.”
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06/27/16 on THE Journal
Schoology has launched Assessment Management Platform (AMP), a tool that combines the company’s learning management system (LMS) with institution-wide assessment management tools.
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By Dylan Peers McCoy
06/23/16 on Chalkbeat
Teachers in Indianapolis Public Schools use a motley collection of tools to track student grades, from paper notes to Excel spreadsheets. When it comes time to send home report cards, they have about a week to go through the tedious process of entering those grades into the school database.
“And of course, it’s really, really slow because everybody is trying to do it all at once,” said Laura Larimer, Chief Information Technology Officer for the district.
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by Eleanor Chute
06/17/16 on EWA
For Nancy Barile, who teaches English at Revere High School, turning around a reluctant reader meant turning on her own TV.
The student wouldn’t read or do homework, Barile said, but he was “obsessed” with The Walking Dead and urged his teacher to watch the program. So Bartile, who has taught at Revere for 21 years, made a deal: She would watch the TV show if he would read.
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by Joyce Russell
05/19/2016 on NWI
PORTAGE — Some students here will be able to lighten their loads if the proposal to move from textbooks to digital learning is approved.
The Portage Township School Board on Wednesday night held a discussion on the adoption of high school social studies and elementary through middle school math materials.
Superintendent Richard Weigel said, if approved at the board’s May 26 meeting, high school students will no longer be assigned textbooks. Instead, all of the materials used in and out of the classroom will be digital and accessible through iPads, computers and other electronic devices. The only textbooks would be a classroom set for back ups.
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By BARRY FISCHER, District 518
April 29, 2016 on Daily Globe
WORTHINGTON — In 2013, Gallup’s State of America’s Schools report stated that 55 percent of U.S. K-12 students are “engaged” in their education, 28 percent are not engaged and 17 percent are actively disengaged. Technology can be one of the keys to increasing engagement in our classrooms.
First of all, let’s set the record straight — technology in the hands of a student is not necessarily engaging. Handing a tablet to a student is not engaging. However, it is how we craft the learning experience with great lesson delivery and technology as a tool.
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by Natasha Singer on January 17, 2016
Judging by the number of learning apps available to classrooms around the country, the education technology market aimed at elementary through high schools is booming.
There are more than 3,900 math and reading apps, classroom management systems and other software services for schools in the United States, according to LearnTrials, a start-up that helps school districts assess and manage these tools.
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by Phil Hill
eLiterate on March 14, 2016
Schoology, a social cloud-based LMS known mostly used in the K-12 market, has set its sights on expanding into the higher education market using their recent $32 million funding round. Last January, Colorado State University’s Global Campus selected Schoology to replace Blackboard Learn, yet the market impact of this decision was limited, partially due to the non-traditional nature of the online-only campus.
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by eCampus News on April 20th, 2016
Wheaton College has implemented Schoology as its new learning management system (LMS). The five-year contract makes Schoology available to more than 2,500 Wheaton College students and the institution’s academic, extracurricular and administrative branches.
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WHEATON, Ill. – April 13, 2016 – Schoology, the education technology company that puts collaboration at the heart of the learning experience, today announced that Wheaton College has implemented Schoology as its new learning management system (LMS). The five-year contract makes Schoology available to more than 2,500 Wheaton College students and the institution’s academic, extracurricular and administrative branches. Click to Tweet.
Research from EDUCAUSE reports that while learning management systems are installed at nearly every college and university campus, only half of the professors use their LMSs. Reasons for lack of use include poor integration, difficult interfaces and the inability of many older LMSs to keep up with the sophisticated needs of traditional and online teaching methods. Furthermore according to the research, very few professors use their existing LMSs to engage with students outside of the classroom.
Wheaton College stated that Schoology was a new and more technologically sophisticated LMS able to combine instructional and communication tools into a collaborative learning interface as reasons for selecting the platform. “We are pleased to welcome Wheaton College, an elite liberal arts college with forward-thinking leaders, as a new customer. Wheaton College saw the power and potential of Schoology’s learner-centric design with a more invigorated focus on student engagement, achievement, and retention than the course-centric designs of a traditional LMS.” said Jeremy Friedman, CEO of Schoology.
Schoology connects all the people, content, and systems that fuel education in a platform that’s so easy to use, it’s second nature. The platform offers higher ed institutions time-saving course management, assessment management, in-depth analytics, and flexible standards-based integrations that make it simple to connect other systems. Schoology also provides native mobile apps so faculty can manage their classes on the go and students can stay connected on any device.
“Our students and faculty participated heavily in the selection process for our new LMS. The students were clear that they wanted a platform that was simple to use on any device and powerful enough to be fully adopted by all faculty so that there would be just one LMS for all of their courses and activities,” said Wendy Woodward, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Wheaton College. “We selected Schoology because of its intuitive learner-centric design, its ability to support our traditional and new teaching methods, and its strong integration capabilities.”
For more on Schoology’s higher ed offerings, visit: http://www.schoology.com/higher-ed
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About Wheaton College
Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.) is a coeducational Christian liberal arts college noted for its rigorous academics, integration of faith and learning, and consistent ranking among the top liberal arts colleges in the country. For more information, visit wheaton.edu.
About Schoology
Schoology is the education technology company putting collaboration at the heart of the learning experience. Schoology’s education cloud connects the people, content, and systems that fuel education, and provides all the tools needed to personalize education and improve student outcomes. More than 12 million people from 60,000 K-12 schools and universities around the world use Schoology to transform how they teach and learn. Find us online, follow us on Twitter, or join us on Facebook.
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