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.


 * Wikispaces and Common Core

== Edmodo Student guidelines==

Introduction activities


 * Log in to Edmodo. Use your student username and password.
 * Join a group - Edmodo Challenge group code xxxxxx
 * Edit your profile. Add a picture - just pick one from those provided.


 * 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...


 * Help, [ Student FAQ]


 * Guidelines

== Teacher guidelines==

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
 * Security best practices

Quizzes
 * 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"

== Teaching Ideas - Edmodo in teaching and learning==


 * exit slips - assignments, quiz


 * Edmodo communities - teachers, educators - sharing, asking questions
 * "Discovery" - lots of great resources - search by topic, media, ...
 * Apps - now selling applications for group.class use
 * suggestions - check periodically, can't use them all at once


 * set group to "moderate posts and replies"
 * sample post rubric - grade student posts


 * 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
 * Letter to parents


 * about Edmodo - general overview