Edmodo: A Guide to Getting Started

1. Edmodo: A Guide to Getting Started BCPS – Department of Digital Learning

2. What is Edmodo? • Free social learning network for teachers, students, schools and districts • Safe and easy way to connect • Exchange ideas • Share content • Access homework, grades and school notices. • District and school subdomains give flexible suite of tools • Monitor usage • Manage users • Communicate across district

3. Secure Platform Ensures Student Safety and Privacy • Closed environment • No private information required from students • Students join classes by the invitation of their teacher only • All communications are archived • Teacher has full management control • Sub domains allow district administrators greater control

4. Technology Acceptable Use Policy (TAUP) for Employees and Approved Non-Employees http://www.bcps.org/system/policies_rules/rules/4000Series/RULE4104.pdf Technology Acceptable Use Policy (TAUP) for Students http://www.bcps.org/system/policies_rules/rules/6000Series/RULE6202.pdf BCPS Rules for use of telecommunications

5. Create Your Account – You will need your school code! https://bcps.edmodo.com/

6. Teacher Landing Page Store unlimited content for easy re-use and sharing Post assignments, reminders, polls, or discussion questions Encourage collaboration and participation in classroom discussions Create Groups for Classes and Clubs

7. Update Your Account Settings Upload a photo or select an icon from our list Choose your privacy settings Customize email or text notification Change your school

8. Join a Group • 1. Select + on Groups menu • 2. Select Join • 3. Enter Group Code qrfpx4

9. Create a Group • 1. Select + on Groups menu • 2. Select Create • 4. Distribute code to group members • 3. Complete group info

10. Manage Groups • Organize shared resources in folders • View grades, reset passwords and set students to “read only” • Create small groups within your groups

11. Student Sign-Up • Student must have group code to register Students are NOT required to give email address • Students should sign up with their AD username and external password

12. Best Practices for Safe Social Networking Encourage students to create their own accounts to ensure password safety After all students join your group, lock the group code to prevent others from joining Monitor group membership to ensure only students in your group have joined Educate students on proper online etiquette Use “Read-Only” or “Moderate” status to curb inappropriate behavior Always log in through the BCPS subdomain Use BCPS AD username and external password

13. Student View Students receive notifications for new grades, new assignments, alerts or replies Unlimited storage for documents, videos and other resources • Students can only join groups, they cannot create them • Students can only send messages to the entire group or directly to the teacher

14. Parent Sign-up • Parent must have parent code to register. • Parents can retrieve parent codes from their child’s Edmodo account.

15. Parent View • Parents have a dashboard view of all of their child’s assignments, grades and calendar notices • Teachers can send parents messages.

16. Edmodo Library • Upload, store and edit content to your personal library • Organize library into folders and share files and folders with groups • Unlimited Storage, • accessible anywhere!

17. Post a Message • Select to post a note, alert, assignment, quiz or poll • Send a message to a group, or post direct messages to specific students or teacher connections • Post message immediately or send out at a scheduled time. • Embed videos, attach files, link to websites or point to documents from your Edmodo Library collection

18. Create an Assignment • Click “Load Assignment” to easily pull up a previously given assignment • View and grade assignments as students turn them in

19. Grading Assignments • Students can attach documents, links or embed video. • Teachers can annotate assignments. • Teachers can grade assignments using points and/or use “stickers.” • Comments allow you to provide feedback on assignments and students are notified immediately. Students can also comment back and a permanent record is kept for reference.

20. Create a Quiz • Select to create a new quiz or load a previously created one Choose from multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, short answer, or matching questions • Add a quiz title, instructions, time limit and choose whether you’d like to allow students to view results immediately.

21. Planner • Filter by group or view all • Add class events, school events or view scheduled assignments

22. Mobile Access • Get updates and notifications on the go with the mobile app. • Available for iOS and Android devices. • Access Edmodo on any mobile browser at m.edmodo.com

23. View an Edmodo Webinar Explore resources in the Help Center Follow the Edmodo Support Community Training and Support Resources 1 2 3 https://support.edmodo.com

24. Grading Quizzes • View number of correct responses by question • Select individual students to view their responses, and grade short answer questions

25. Gradebook/Progress • Export option allows you to transfer grades to another program • Manually add grades for other assignments. • Scores are updated automatically after each assignment is graded and recorded