LMS Evaluation Grid
Ease of Use
The SIS pushes courses and handles enrollment and parents if a district opts to enable the permission. Facebook look and feel makes the platform user friendly. Schoology also seamlessly integrates with apps allowing students to experience interactive learning without leaving the platform. For this reason elementary and middle school teachers find the product appealing as it scaffolds online learning for younger learners.
Access
Calendar tools in Schoology streamline administrative tasks for faculty at the classroom, school, district, and organization level. Students also benefit from using calendar tools as they mirror workflows of the modern workforce. Users also have the ability to create events and track RSVP's. The feature enables faculty to enlist volunteers for classroom or sporting events quickly if parent accounts are enabled.
Dashboard shows student work at a glance for all of the classes they are enrolled in. Assignments are categorized as overdue or upcoming and link to submission pages. Direct links from the dashboard allow students to get to where they need to be with a single click making the platform accessible for primary and secondary students.
Course Design
Google Classroom for all intense and purposes is a classroom website. While both will get the job done, an LMS provides a one stop shop getting the job done efficiently. Linking sections in Schoology allows educators to modify content available to multiple courses once. In Google classroom changes must be made to every copy individually. The process is labor intensive, time consuming, and often results in only making changes that can not otherwise be ignored.
Assessment
When choosing the face of your classroom, consider how a platform supports planning, teaching and learning, and assessment and evaluation. Google Classroom is not an LMS. It functions much like a classroom website hosted by Weebly or Wix might. While teachers can use Google Classroom to get basic components of the job done, users never experience the magic of teaching and learning through a robust LMS. Assessment is a critical component of teaching and learning. Schoology takes assessment to the next level with over 20 question types that provide students with opportunities to practice enhanced testing items typically encountered on state tests in a low stakes environment. Based on assessment and analytics or lack their of, Schoology and Blackboard overshadow Google Classroom excluding it from the list of LMS's to consider.
The SIS pushes courses and handles enrollment and parents if a district opts to enable the permission. Facebook look and feel makes the platform user friendly. Schoology also seamlessly integrates with apps allowing students to experience interactive learning without leaving the platform. For this reason elementary and middle school teachers find the product appealing as it scaffolds online learning for younger learners.
Access
Calendar tools in Schoology streamline administrative tasks for faculty at the classroom, school, district, and organization level. Students also benefit from using calendar tools as they mirror workflows of the modern workforce. Users also have the ability to create events and track RSVP's. The feature enables faculty to enlist volunteers for classroom or sporting events quickly if parent accounts are enabled.
Dashboard shows student work at a glance for all of the classes they are enrolled in. Assignments are categorized as overdue or upcoming and link to submission pages. Direct links from the dashboard allow students to get to where they need to be with a single click making the platform accessible for primary and secondary students.
Course Design
Google Classroom for all intense and purposes is a classroom website. While both will get the job done, an LMS provides a one stop shop getting the job done efficiently. Linking sections in Schoology allows educators to modify content available to multiple courses once. In Google classroom changes must be made to every copy individually. The process is labor intensive, time consuming, and often results in only making changes that can not otherwise be ignored.
Assessment
When choosing the face of your classroom, consider how a platform supports planning, teaching and learning, and assessment and evaluation. Google Classroom is not an LMS. It functions much like a classroom website hosted by Weebly or Wix might. While teachers can use Google Classroom to get basic components of the job done, users never experience the magic of teaching and learning through a robust LMS. Assessment is a critical component of teaching and learning. Schoology takes assessment to the next level with over 20 question types that provide students with opportunities to practice enhanced testing items typically encountered on state tests in a low stakes environment. Based on assessment and analytics or lack their of, Schoology and Blackboard overshadow Google Classroom excluding it from the list of LMS's to consider.
