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Millions of people from over 60,000 K-12 schools and universities around the world use Schoology to transform how they teach and learn.
Private, public, and international PreK-12/primary/secondary schools.
I really like the user customization abilities, ease for teachers to send announcements, share content and materials, and ease of communication between students, peers and teachers.
At this point there is an option but it has delays and other problems.
Schoology made it so easy for our teachers to create, manage, and share academic content. The ability to look at upcoming assignments, submit them and take virtual tests is amazing.
But in particular, there is nothing intuitive about how you use it. And the interface for parents is different enough from the interface for students that it is just frustrating to navigate.
The students find it user friendly and the teachers love having one place to manage the many aspects of their classes. Excited to see what new features will be coming this year.
As a specialist teacher, it was confusing whether to work with the classroom teacher or have our own Schoology accounts.
The best part is that there are so many added features and an amazing supportive community to help you customize and develop your courses even further.
My co-teacher and I had a hard time figuring out how to prevent students from receiving their grades right after submitting their exams.
Fortunately, your team of customer support personnel are amazingly helpful and have always been super supportive and have happily walked me through the task at hand.
This is the worst program I have experienced since my son started school... there is always a glitch going on and the tech support is very slow at fixing problems. Some days it recognizes me.
This software is relatively affordable for schools. I like that you can send weekly progress reports to parents to keep them in the loop.
Navigation is frustrating and confusing. I don't fully understand its purpose.
This software is applicable to every aspect of a school and teacher's responsibilities, duties - it is very helpful and once trained I appreciate the capabilities.
You didn't know your staff would go to the trouble to upload something for just 24 hours, but that is what Renweb thinks, and refuses to change. Their default should be a one week date range.
This is definitely worth the cost. While the base price includes email, many parents don't read email, so texting is a great advantage, esp. when we really need to get in touch with them.
The thing I really hate is when you go to a classroom and it pops up "communication has moved.
Rita: My name is Rita. I'm a German teacher at Hampshire High School, which is a rural high school in West Virginia, and we have been using Schoology for quite some time now, and I would probably give it a close to a rating of five. In our school, we used to use it during the pandemic, also for attendance. Right now it is basically for grades. But we also post our assignments there, especially it comes in handy when you post all your assignments there for the people that are absent or that are missing school due to illness. And we also use it to basically keep track of students' progress, for progress reports and for report cards. It's probably the feature of self-grading, little quizzes, little pop-up quizzes that you can create. And I love those because you put in effort once, you can reuse them year after year and they self grade. Also, during the pandemic, what was very important, you had to sequence basically your assignments because most students would not come online. It was not required in West Virginia, we couldn't make it mandatory. So the sequencing of assignments to follow through step by step, that was very crucial and Schoology lets you do that. And that was an awesome feature that we needed during that time. Of course, it saves all your classroom materials that you have and you can reuse it then the following year. Again, you just hit back from where you stored it, you post it again and bingo, you're back in business. The customer service is something that from a teacher point of view is basically non-existent. You have frequent questions and answers section, but most of the time if you have an issue, you see that numerous teachers in front of you have been asking that. It should probably need a little bit of an overhaul at this point, especially the HTML feature or the more flexibility that you just can drag and drop your assignments rather than just clicking and send to. It's a little bit ease off usage. That would be great. They have improved some of the things, and of course it also depends on what your county or your district allows you to do and what they will allow you to see. But a little overhaul would be nice.
Andrew: Hi, my name is Andrew. I'm a Director of Family Ministries. I give FACTS three out of five, and for more reviews like this click below. Before we switched to FACTS, we used an SIS system from Rediker, and part of the reason we switched the FACTS is that it can do more things. In addition to the standard SIS feature package, it had an integrated app for our school community and could do some pieces related to communications and to syncing with our website applications that Rediker couldn't. So that was one reason. And the primary one, we moved to FACTS. We chose FACTS for a couple reasons. As I said, the first one and an important one for us is that it interfaced with our software that manages our website and communications tools out of the box. You can make other custom integrations if you want to, but FACTS had that, been shipped with it. That was very appealing. Another piece is that it lived in the cloud, and as we moved many other systems to cloud-based infrastructures, we wanted the SIS system to match that. Lastly, it was an affordable solution for us. It might not have been the cheapest one around, but we figured we were getting what we paid for. Getting started with FACTS was complicated. The initial setup in terms of getting our information into FACTS was pretty simple. They had a good importing tool and we got our students and faculty moved over without too much trouble. We had some significant issues though, getting our school calendar to sync in FACTS, and through FACTS to the website, as well as our custom school app was significantly delayed. We had many rounds of conversations with FACTS customer support, trying to communicate that our issues remained. They were not resolved. And it took a significant amount of time in order to get those resolved. That was tough for our end users, particularly our parents who had been promised this app that worked and fully integrated with the system. And also, it made our school calendar unusable for a long time. We had to come up with ways to circumvent that. So that part was a challenge. A few recommendations if you're considering getting FACTS. The first is see what integrations it has out of the box. Again, lots of custom options, but FACTS, ships with the ability to integrate with a lot of learning management systems, that was important for us, as well as some website providers and some other things that schools and nonprofits often use. Another thing I'd recommend is getting clear about timelines for the onboarding process. You may well want to see a final version of your custom app well before you launch FACTS to your school community. That would've saved us a lot of headache and probably would've made the experience much smoother overall. Lastly, I'd encourage you to take a look at what FACTS is going to do in your environment. FACTS can do a lot of different things, but you may not need all the features, or you might decide that you really like some parts of it, but other features you're not going to use. Depending on your feature set needs, another product might be a better fit. That's what I'd recommend if you are looking at FACTS for your environment.
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