Schoology is a learning management system (LMS) designed to have a student-friendly interface similar to Facebook to facilitate collaboration. It offers traditional LMS features like grading and attendance tracking, but also interactive tools like profiles, messaging, and groups. The home page displays recent activity and updates like a Facebook wall to encourage engagement. By mirroring familiar social platforms, Schoology aims to make the LMS easy to use and appealing to students.

1. A Learning Management
System with
A Student-friendly Facebook
Appeal

2. • As a learning management
system, Schoology offers the traditional
administrative programs for
attendance, grading, academic calendars
and homework posting.

3. www.schoology.co
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4. However,
• Realizing the enormous potential of the
Internet to positively transform the field of
education,
• developers decided to design
a LMS that does more than administrative
duties.

5. • They have have applied the highly-
popular interactive formats of
social networks like Facebook and
the Ning
–to create a new social networking
version of a LMS

6. • that
provides opportunities to
and on
assignments and projects on the
LMS
• And so facilitates the educational
objective of students to be

7. Important Features
• Communicative tools
• Collaborative tools
• Ease of use, visual appeal and tech
support

8. Versatile forms of
Communication
Ability to post messages to
a whole community, a group, an individual

9. Versatile collaboration in
Groups
The ability to create groups
that are open to everyone,
… or closed to all but a select group

10. Versatile Collaboration in
Groups
Book Groups
Open Group

11. Versatile collaboration in
Groups
Closed group

12. Collaboration on Profile Pages
Each student has their own profile
page where they can post their updates, or
create a blog.
Students can comment on their friends pages in
threaded conversations, listed chronologically.

13. Collaboration on Profile Page

15. Visual Appeal: The Home
Page
Students who
view the
FacebookWall,
will also like
this Home Page

16. The Home Page, like the
Facebook Wall shows all
activity:
• online discussions set-up by course,
• all comments and uploaded links,
• all updates
• reminders from their teachers

17. • “Schoology’s user interface mirrors
familiar social networking and
participatory information sharing
platforms. The user‐centered design and
elegant look and feel encourages
students, faculty, and administrators to
engage in a collaborative learning
environment.”

18. Ease of Use: The Home Page
FEATURES OF THE HOME PAGE
-Easy to use with links to student
pages

19. • "An LMS can serve as a useful tool for
teacher-student communication. The
problem? Students don’t like using
them... Schoology aims to replace more
traditional systems with one that is more
appealing to users. It didn’t look far – its
layout is nearly identical to Facebook’s. The
clear advantage of this is that it makes it easy
to use for students and most teachers."
• eLearning News Update

20. Additional Features
• Dropboxes
• Ability to set privileges for student
roles
• Ability to search for students in
discussion threads

21. Additional Features

22. Additional Features
• Linked with Google Apps for
education for quick access to
Google Docs
• Able to import/export grades and
student lists

24. References
• www.schoolgy.com
• www.smatoos.comSchoology: A new LMs
for the facebookgeneration, December 12.
2011