Schoology is a teacher/student social network for your classroom. Teachers can communicate with their students, as well as provide a calendar of assignments throughout the year. Students can submit work through Schoology using their school Google Drive account as well. This makes assignment collection easy, and keeps it organized for you.
What makes Schoology great is that it does all the work for you. You can add videos, files, documents, and images to a course page and any assignment. You can also individually assign things to students, instead of to the entire group. Interested in individualization? Schoology let’s you force students to complete one assignment before they begin the next one. On Schoology, students can blog and you can assign discussions for assignments that students communicate on together.
Schoology is an on-line classroom within a classroom. Teachers can form groups and collaborate together. You can also join world-wide groups and form your very own personal learning network, or PLN. You can keep grades, offer student badges, add all of your own personal resources to a cloud-based library, and keep track of tardies and absences. It’s even great for students who go on independent study.