Schoology: A Comprehensive Cheat Sheet for Effective Course Management, Schemes and Mind Maps of Teaching method

Download Schoology: A Comprehensive Cheat Sheet for Effective Course Management and more Schemes and Mind Maps Teaching method in PDF only on Docsity! PREPARED FOR Taikura Rudolf Steiner COURSE CONTENT CHEAT SHEET CHEAT SHEET Keep students informed about what’s happening in your course, or highlight important messages. Updates can be daily/weekly learning outcomes, reminders, or interesting and useful information about their learning. Updates shared via courses and extracurricular groups will be personalised and delivered ‘just in time’ to your students main Activity News Feed in a familiar and engaging ‘social media’ styled approach. Tips and tricks: - Add images, and play with font size/formatting, or add audio/video to make updates stand out from the rest - Add Files, Resources or URL hyperlinks to important content - Use the ‘Poll’ feature to collect immediate feedback on a course or group related question - Updates allow students to ask, and answer each other’s questions, creating a collaborative, empowering environment - The more the Updates tool is used across Course and Groups, the better students will be at engaging with their Activity Feed to keep themselves up to date Organise and curate your course content in ways that make it simple and efficient for student’s to navigate. Folders, and sub-folders can be created and arranged in an organisation that best suits the course structure i.e. chronologically, or by topic. Tips and tricks: - Colour code the folders for the best visual impact and ease of use. - Use the settings tools to unpublish, individually assign or set completion rules. - Save folders to your Resources, or create them in Resources so that they are not ‘lost’ when a course is archived. - Drag and drop the ‘current’ folder to the top for ease of access for students - Don’t have too many sub-folder layers - as a rule of thumb - no more than 3 clicks to access an item Use assignments to collect, view and respond to student’s evidence of learning. Use either a scale or rubric to grade student submissions. Tips and tricks: - Schoology Assignments allow for multiple forms of media submission: digital documents, scanned hard copy, photos, URL links, audio and video. This allows students to evidence their learning in a way that best suits them, and the learning. - Create and use grading categories thoughtfully to arrange grade results in the student/parent Grades view in a logical way - Use the ‘Individually Assign’ tool to assign them to small groups of students when needed so that students outside the group don’t have unsubmitted or unmark submissions - Annotate, markup and give overall feedback student submissions for them to act on and resubmit. Feedback can be written, audio, video and files. - Toggle between submissions to view improvement - Assignment submissions can become a narrative of learning in themselves UPDATES FOLDERS ASSIGNMENTS