User:Vtaylor/Classroom community

Edmodo - classroom community. Edmodo provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner.

Edmodo Student guidelines

Introduction activities

Reply to the post from your teacher and tell her the name of your favorite book.
Post a new message, and state your favorite subject
Reply to your own post with a link to your favorite web site
Rely to your post with an attachment - your picture
Search for posts with filter feature. Find all the posts by teachers. How many are there? Make a note of this number because it is than answer to one of the quiz questions.
Check the calendar for the due dates for the assignments
Look in the folder and select a video to watch
Complete and submit the text assignment. Write a short summary of the video that you selected
Submit an assignment as a file
View your grades
Explore Edmodo. There is lots of other information. There are many more functions that we will use when we are use Edmodo all the time. There is a question on the quiz so be ready to name some other features of Edmodo that you discover.
Complete and submit the quiz. There are multiple choice, fill in the blanks questions about using Edmodo.
Answer the Poll question.

More challenges

Go to the notification preferences in you account profile. Once you understand the options, set the notifications to your preference.
Look in your backpack. Add an item.
Review the help on Badges.
Review the help for edit a post, add a tag, delete. Add a tag called "Tag" to one of your posts.

Learn more...

Introduction

Log in to Edmodo with your Teacher account (Create one if you don't have one already.)
Join the Edmodo Challenge group - group code xxxxxx
If you are new to Edmodo, or if you want a refresher, find the message with the Student Introduction activities and do them all. We would like all the kids to do all these when they are getting started.
Explore the site and get a general idea of the layout and functions.

Teacher functions

Manage posts (yours) - hover over top right corner of a previous post - blue down arrow. Drop down menu of functions. ** This is really important.
Explore Group settings - notifications, member posting options.
Add a student to this group. It is helpful to have a "student" account that you can use to see what the students see. Post as the student.
Manage student posts - teacher function has control over ALL posts in the group.
Create assignment. Login as student and complete assignment.
Explore Progress options. Review / grade student work.
Create quiz. Include True/False, Multiple choice, Fill in the Blank, Short Answer. Include several questions of each type, so you can see what happens with correct and incorrect answers. Check show answers. Login as student and complete and submit quiz.
Review / grade student quiz.

Student accounts, grades and security

short answer questions - manual grading, others are auto-graded
can't edit after assigned. Delete quiz and re-assign but will delete any student submissions too
share - workaround - co-teacher in other teacher's group and assign quiz there
prevent late submission by putting placeholder in grade for students who didn't complete on time - Absent, Excused, N/A - text will not affect gradebook. Numerical score can be entered and will be in grade calculation.
student do over - must delete first attempt

? mix auto-grade and manual grade - show student ? immediate answers / feedback > "cheating"

public posts - "coming this week" information
parent codes ? using them or just make info for parents "public"
send letter / get permission from parents for student accounts - ask parent to set up student account = permission? permission but no account setup? explicit NO student account?

Edmodo Help provides great resources