PROGRAM OPTIONS
SCHOOLOGY
• Learning Management System (LMS)
• Schoology is not your typical learning management
system (LMS). We have redefined the LMS to make
online education a collective effort and to increase the
overall impact of everyone involved in a student's
education.
• Courses created in Schoology have a teacher attached
SCHOOLOGY FEATURES
Web Hosting/Cloud Service
Schoology hosts your website, your
content, and your files. Best of all, it
connects you with your students to help
improve outcomes.
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Course Profiles
Every student is unique. That's why an
effective education is both dynamic
and agile. Schoology makes creating
unique and flexible course profiles
simple with a whole suite of studentcentric content creation and learning
tools and an easy-to-use, intuitive
interface.
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Flexible Instructional Tools
Students learn differently—that’s why
effective instruction requires a flexible
solution. Schoology empowers instructors
with the tools to easily differentiate
instruction, pace students individually, and
implement group-based learning.
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Badges
With the ability to create custom badges
using a choice of shapes, colors, and any
image or animated GIF available on the web,
educators are better able to build incentive
and reinforce positive behavior in a fun way.
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Calendar
• Schoology gives you a user-friendly calendar to
help simplify the constant tasks of organization
and keeping everyone on the same page.
• Schoology's calendar is an easy-to-use, robust
way to manage personal and course events,
ensuring communication for all.
• Schoology’s calendars are color coded, provide
automatic updating, and can synchronize with
other web-based calendars such as Microsoft
Outlook or Google Calendar.
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Online Homework Submissions
Schoology's Assignment Submissions
feature simplifies and centralizes the
process of submitting, annotating, grading,
and returning assignments so there's no
unnecessary repetition.
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Create Assignments and Events
Schoology’s robust content creation tools
and user-friendly interface make creating
diverse assignments and events simple. You
can easily attach and embed engaging media
from your hard drive or the web. Best of all,
created assignment and events are
automatically organized in the course, group,
and personal calendars.
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Create Tests and Quizzes
Formative assessment is essential not only
to understanding learner strengths, but also
to finding routes toward improved student
outcomes. Schoology’s assessment creation
tools provide instructors with simple ways
to create media-rich assessments using
new, repurposed, and standards aligned
content.
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Make Learning Mobile
Native mobile apps extend our awardwinning LMS to all iOS, Android, and Kindle
Fire mobile devices for free, enabling costeffective 1:1 and BYOD initiatives. Everything
from assessment creation, submission, and
grading to media-rich discussions are easily
achieved from a mobile device.
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Online Gradebook and Attendance
Schoology’s Gradebook and Attendance
save you time by automating the
redundant tasks of inputting grades and
taking attendance. Even with custom
grading scales and easily editable settings,
you can focus your time and efforts
elsewhere.
• Offer a more collaborative, interactive, and mobile learning experience that constantly
evolves, and you’ll keep everyone engaged like never before. That’s what the Blackboard
Collaborate™ online collaboration platform is all about. Helping you create virtual
classrooms, offices and meeting spaces that open more possibilities to more students,
wherever they are. Offering exciting new approaches to learning while involving each
student on an individual level. With solutions like these, we can build a better educational
experience that will get everyone talking.
• This is a key communication tool for the students who have courses that have a teacher
attached. They will meet online weekly for office hours.
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PLATFORM DESIGNED
FOR EDUCATORS
Web Conferencing
Voice Authorizing
Take live engagement online. Deliver
highly engaging and effective virtual
classroom activities, meetings, webinars,
professional development, blended
learning, and help across your academic
enterprise.
Create a more engaging and effective
asynchronous environment by adding a
voice authoring component to facilitate
vocal instruction, collaboration, language
study, personalized coaching, and
assessment.
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Mobile Collaboration
Give today's active learners the
interaction they want with live
participation in classes and meetings on
their mobile devices—anytime, anywhere,
and from any LMS.
Instant Messaging
Create a learning network to support
office hours, school services, impromptu
meetings, one-to-one collaboration,
student help, and desktop video
conferencing—all initiated through
presence and instant messaging.
• The CompassLearning Odyssey® suite of
learning solutions includes lessons and
activities that are based on current and
confirmed research about the way
today’s students think and learn.
Odyssey curricula for primary and
secondary students facilitates
differentiated and personalized
instruction, while formative
assessments and reporting tools help
drive data-driven decision making.
• Courses created in this program do not
have to have a teacher attached to
them.
COMPASS LEARNING FEATURES
Interactive and Engaging Learning
Experiences
K-12 Activities:
ELA
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
Art
Music
Health
Physical Education
COMPASS LEARNING FEATURES CONT.
Easily Assess and Prescribe
• Prescriptive personalized learning paths are
based on curricula that align to State and
Common Core State Standards.
• Automatically generate personalized learning
paths based on each student’s multidimensional assessment, and utilize the robust
curriculum.
• After assessment, Odyssey automatically
generates a learning path. Teachers can then
adjust the path based on their knowledge of
performance data.
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Real-time reporting
• Compass Learning reports list and summarize
a wide variety of student information,
allowing educators to dig deeper into
individual student achievement, and even
address community issues outside of the
classroom. Learning Path Status
• Student Progress
• Objective-based Test Results
• Student Writing Portfolio
• Student Completion
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Odyssey Writer
• Embedded in Odyssey activities at levels 3–12 and also
can be used on its own for any level or activity.
• This feature contains essential organizational tools,
such as note cards and mind maps and guides students
through the brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and
revision.
• Helps prepare students for high-stakes writing
assessments with its customizable evaluation rubric.
• This lets teachers examine a student’s specific area of
needed improvement so that future writing
assignments are tailored to enhance the potential for
success.
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Teacher Created Lessons
• Match teaching styles and unique
needs of each classroom through a
more flexible design and manage the
assignments.
• Teachers can upload custom content
from external documents or embed
links to web-based materials to build
authentic tasks in courses to provide
additional learning opportunities.