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Practice With Schoology At Your Own Pace

Teachers are busy people with a lot on their plates. Those of us in Instructional Technology know that and it is important to us that you all have time to get ready for the Schoology adoption at your own pace. Some teachers will have more time in the summer. Some will want to use breaks. Some are ready to get going right now. Wherever you are on the timeline, you don't have to wait for our help to start learning Schoology. There are a lot of resources available to you right now. You can find them anywhere in Schoology's Help Center, or you can simply search for a topic in Google. You'll very likely find other teachers who have had the same questions you have.

If you have done nothing at all with Schoology so far, you can get started with a few of the basics whenever you want. First, you can log into our District 113 Schoology account at any time. Simply go to lms.dist113.org and log in with your Gmail credentials.

Once you are in Schoology, you will see a tab labeled Courses:

All of your courses from this year have been created in Schoology. However, if you aren't ready to start building in your current classes, you can build in your Sandbox:

One of the courses already created for you is called "Sandbox Course." There are no students associated with it. It is 100% playground area. You can practice with any of the tools we have in our Schoology Suite, and, one of the things we'll show you at the end of the year is how to take everything you've uploaded this year and repurpose it for the Fall.

If you are struggling with the concept of how to get started on Schoology, you might try the YouTube Video below called "First Steps with Schoology." It is actually indexed so you can watch any of the topics in isolation. The video covers the 5 main steps to begin with Schoology:

1. Set up your first course 2:45 2. Organize and Share Materials 19:00 3. Create Interactive Activities 34:45 4. Schedule Work in the Calendar 52:45 5. Track Work in the Gradebook 57:00

If you'd prefer to learn by doing, you can complete the Schoology PD Course called "Extend Your Classroom to the Cloud." If it isn't in your Course drop down already, you can search for it in courses. In total, although you can decide how much time to dedicate to the course, it takes about two hours to complete the self-paced course.

And of course, you can contact Lisa or myself at anytime for a little help getting starting.