A terrible online school system that’s embarrassing.
Schoology is not only a bad system, it’s possibly the worst online school system I have ever used. This is a terribly designed system, that’s makes it hard to find classes, and assignments. The app will glitch a lot, and not tell you if you have an assignment. The app will continuously make you sign in to do things even though you are already signed in, and it wastes time. There is barley any communication with the teachers, and it seems the developers don’t care, because they haven’t even been bothered to do anything new. Not only is the design boring, but it seems like the developers just didn’t care. Also if you finish the assignment the system will still keep the assignment up as if you didn’t do it. The app had absolutely nothing redeeming about it. It’s poorly designed, extremely glitching, hard to find assignments, no communication with teachers, and feels like no one cared. Please never use this app. It’s an embarrassment. Your better off using Google Classroom.
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Conferences
It’s not letting me join conferences on iPad and the format is very messy. Fix this please.
It’s fine, but there are some issues
I use Schoology for school, and for the most part it’s tolerable. A few things get on my nerves about it, though.
1, On both the website and app, when I change my preferred name in the account settings, Schoology /always/ resets it. No matter how many times I hit ‘save changes’, it always reloads the next day as if no change had been made, and that’s extremely annoying. I have to go into the settings and rechange my name every day instead of the change /actually being saved/.
2, When I search someone’s name in the app or for messages, even if I’m spelling it exactly right, it never shows up. I type the name in, and everyone but the person I’ve searched shows up. This makes messaging teachers a lot more difficult when I’m not in classes with them and only know their name and have to carefully type it in so Schoology doesn’t hide them from me
3, In the app, clicking links brings a popup, which sometimes will not let me close it unless I reload the app. It’s ridiculous, and should just redirect us to a working browser instead of the finnicky popup
4, It doesn’t update teachers about assignments handed in after they are due. This makes it hard to grade late work, and makes it more difficult to see what my grade actually is, since it only updates teachers about work handed in on time
It’s fine at it’s job, but it could be much better
1, On both the website and app, when I change my preferred name in the account settings, Schoology /always/ resets it. No matter how many times I hit ‘save changes’, it always reloads the next day as if no change had been made, and that’s extremely annoying. I have to go into the settings and rechange my name every day instead of the change /actually being saved/.
2, When I search someone’s name in the app or for messages, even if I’m spelling it exactly right, it never shows up. I type the name in, and everyone but the person I’ve searched shows up. This makes messaging teachers a lot more difficult when I’m not in classes with them and only know their name and have to carefully type it in so Schoology doesn’t hide them from me
3, In the app, clicking links brings a popup, which sometimes will not let me close it unless I reload the app. It’s ridiculous, and should just redirect us to a working browser instead of the finnicky popup
4, It doesn’t update teachers about assignments handed in after they are due. This makes it hard to grade late work, and makes it more difficult to see what my grade actually is, since it only updates teachers about work handed in on time
It’s fine at it’s job, but it could be much better
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Terrible version of Schoology
I’m not writing this because I hate school or whatever. This is genuinely a terrible app. My reasoning? Well for starters half of the stuff on the web browser isn’t even on this app. I had to join a meeting for school because ✨covid✨ and I couldn’t join. I was 5 minutes late thanks to your app because apparently links don’t show up so after trying to figure that out I had to go to the web browser and get on from there. I blame that on y’all. The link was there and working but not on this app. My computer has issues all the time so I have to use my phone and iPad to do schoolwork and I downloaded the app to try and speed stuff up. Terrible mistake on my end. More things. Submitting stuff is a joke to be honest. It takes like 14 hours to submit anything (if it does submit) and it’s so finicky. With google docs it is terrible because if you don’t submit it one of two ways no one can see it or access it. It is terrible with transferring links/pictures especially from other apps and the bugs are ridiculous. It is sooooo unorganized and I have to go back and forth to find one class. The only good thing about this app is that I can get onto Schoology immediately vs using the web browser, and I’d almost rather do that. FIX THE APP OR TAKE IT OFF ITS PRACTICALLY USELESS
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Clean things up and improve
Clean things up, have an icon or text that says turned in or not turned in so it can be easier, organize things and make it more kid friendly, and also make it simpler for example how is someone supposed to know to press the blue text at the top when there something you have to open or there is like a link and for the different things teacher assign to you in this app you could have little text saying what course or class it’s from and when you open course make it so it only shows the assignments from it and not from other courses. Then show all the assignments on the main page. Also sometimes when o ha e something overdue it doesn’t even pop up on the thing where overdue stuff is. The website crashes a lot as well and the emails are pointless like I don’t care if they updated Schoology U could just tell me when something is overdue, when something is turned in, and what the teacher actually posted on there. Aight I said what needed to be said
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all my homies hate schoology
honestly, though? The interface could be SO MUCH BETTER. The potential was THERE but the servers are crappy a lot of times and videos won’t play in the app on many occasions. the web version is much better than the app, which is a problem, since most kids (at least in my district) are using the app because iPads are provided by the school.
Schoology is hard to navigate for parents and first-time students. One of its biggest flaws is tracking the assignments - it doesn’t show missing assignments in the overdue section of the upcoming tab, meaning that missing assignments stay missing for days, as I am unaware that they *are* missing, as checking missing assignments requires you to go through the grades of your classes one by one.
In summary, the potential is there, it really is. Upgrading the app to have the same capabilities as the web browser would go a long way, as well as having a tab itself for missing assignments and a way to contact your teachers quickly and easily.
Schoology is hard to navigate for parents and first-time students. One of its biggest flaws is tracking the assignments - it doesn’t show missing assignments in the overdue section of the upcoming tab, meaning that missing assignments stay missing for days, as I am unaware that they *are* missing, as checking missing assignments requires you to go through the grades of your classes one by one.
In summary, the potential is there, it really is. Upgrading the app to have the same capabilities as the web browser would go a long way, as well as having a tab itself for missing assignments and a way to contact your teachers quickly and easily.
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Bad app, worse organization.
Hello, my school has been using Schoology for years, and every year it has been the same problems. An app like Facebook attempting to be “Educational.” This causes many problems because Facebook was made for talking, and getting together, not uploading assignments for students. So combining the two ideas would be a mess. One example of this is the “courses.” Tab. The courses tab is hard to navigate through unless you change the order of the icons, and if you don’t know how to do that you’re gonna have a hard time getting around, and get this, close to no instructions are given on how to do that. Another reason I gave this app one star is the group feature, it’s just plain useless. Nobody really uses it besides clubs, and even then it’s just a mini course. Another problem I have with this app, is the lack of dark mode. A lot of students have to stay up late and having a blaring white light in your eyes when you try to do literally anything. It might just be mine and my friends opinions but the interface hurts, no exaggeration. I hope this will help the app improve somewhat, and give some guidance for adding or removing features.
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It gets the job done, but not well
It is ok when looking at it without actually using it. When you are an actual student using this it is horrible. I have not met a student that uses this that enjoys it.
Pros:
It shows all of you let assignments and when they are due.
It puts all of said assignments on a calendar.
Cons:
Just about everything else.
Including but not limited to:
It doesn’t actually show you overdue work unless you change that in the settings.
The amount of digging you have to do to find some things in the grade book is crazy.
There are many aspects of the app that are never used.
If the work assigned wasn’t put as an assignment it won’t show up on overdue or the calendar making it impossible to know when it has been graded, not to mention if you forgot the due date you have to learn the due date the hard way: by turning it in late.
And when looking at a teachers prospective it is very overwhelming, even if they only assign 1 thing to all of their students it shows it as 160 ungraded assignments.
It is so confusing that in my school district that 2nd grade and below teachers are barred from even using it with their students. If it is too confusing for second graders, then it shouldn’t be used at all.
That is barely even a scratch at the surface.
I might be a little biased but still, this is an app that has a confusing interface with some weird aspects overall. Not putting this on the devs, they obviously worked very hard. But there is just a lot to fix.
Pros:
It shows all of you let assignments and when they are due.
It puts all of said assignments on a calendar.
Cons:
Just about everything else.
Including but not limited to:
It doesn’t actually show you overdue work unless you change that in the settings.
The amount of digging you have to do to find some things in the grade book is crazy.
There are many aspects of the app that are never used.
If the work assigned wasn’t put as an assignment it won’t show up on overdue or the calendar making it impossible to know when it has been graded, not to mention if you forgot the due date you have to learn the due date the hard way: by turning it in late.
And when looking at a teachers prospective it is very overwhelming, even if they only assign 1 thing to all of their students it shows it as 160 ungraded assignments.
It is so confusing that in my school district that 2nd grade and below teachers are barred from even using it with their students. If it is too confusing for second graders, then it shouldn’t be used at all.
That is barely even a scratch at the surface.
I might be a little biased but still, this is an app that has a confusing interface with some weird aspects overall. Not putting this on the devs, they obviously worked very hard. But there is just a lot to fix.
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Bad app overall
Hello, I am an 11th grader. I have been using Schoology for school for probably about 2 1/2 years now. Last year, my school made it mandatory that my teacher give tests and quizzes and some assignments from here. With COVID, we have been using it more than ever. Although it is amazing we are able to do this, this app is messed up.
First of all, some assignments for me my teachers can’t see, back in 9th grade when I had to redo a whole week long lab, and my AP US History binder check for a unit. Furthermore, sometimes Schoology crashes. Last week for my AP Bio class, we were supposed to have a test on Wednesday. Guess what??? She couldn’t post it and it was delayed to Monday. Instead of what I was hoping to be a chill break turned into me studying for my test. This is not my teachers fault. It is not my fault. We, especially the teachers who are doing so much already with reinventing learning, are sick of this.
I hope Schoology improves A LOT because if it doesn’t, Canva, which has WAY better ratings, is right next door. This application isn’t the worst thing and I understand how so many people are suffering way worse than me right now, but I thought I’d add to your pile of rotten reviews. I’ll give you a 2 because you aren’t the worst thing in the world.
First of all, some assignments for me my teachers can’t see, back in 9th grade when I had to redo a whole week long lab, and my AP US History binder check for a unit. Furthermore, sometimes Schoology crashes. Last week for my AP Bio class, we were supposed to have a test on Wednesday. Guess what??? She couldn’t post it and it was delayed to Monday. Instead of what I was hoping to be a chill break turned into me studying for my test. This is not my teachers fault. It is not my fault. We, especially the teachers who are doing so much already with reinventing learning, are sick of this.
I hope Schoology improves A LOT because if it doesn’t, Canva, which has WAY better ratings, is right next door. This application isn’t the worst thing and I understand how so many people are suffering way worse than me right now, but I thought I’d add to your pile of rotten reviews. I’ll give you a 2 because you aren’t the worst thing in the world.
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So many things need to change
Now I know kids are rating this app 1 start so they don’t have to use it anymore but I really don’t like the website/app. 1 for your school to have schoology you have to pay, when you could use google classroom for free. 2 website is always crashing, no matter how good my WiFi is or how many People are trying to get on at one time we have all experienced schoology to not load and not work. 3 although it is nice that you can organize with folder and folders in folders it takes way to long to get to something if you do that, I suggest that after the assignment has been completed it goes away and there should be a tap under all classes saying “all materials” and change the one that is all materials now to “assigned” it would be so much easier to get to things. 4 when you open an assignment and hit “my document” it is sooo small, I don’t know if I’m typing correctly and I can’t see what the question is asking it is so annoying. 5 overdue/missing assignments needs to get better, if something is overdue or almost overdue and I haven’t turned it in of course I like to get an email saying “THIS IS ALMOST DUE” instead of “mr. _____ has updated schoology. Also, sometimes I have something overdue and I know I do, and it’s not even on the “overdue”board. Very poor way to have missing assignments. There are many more reasons, schoology please look at these reviews and try and fix it because if you didn’t already know the app only has 1 star.
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