Schoology is horrible
This is probably the worst app to be using for school work, on the mobile version you can’t even login. And on the computer version submitting assessments and navigating the site is slow glitchy and hardly ever works. Doing year 8 high school work is hard enough without using a slow and glitchy site, half the time submitted assessment delete themselves form the submission point! I’m fed up and very frustrated with this app.
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Bad
When I join a class, everyone makes fun of me and tells me to do the peepee poopoo dance
Suggestions
The overall app is okay. It’s a bit disorganized, however it is understand due to the fact that if has a lot all on one website/app. However there are a few suggestions I would like to make. For starters when a student submits their assignment in stead of just have the “on time” there should be a green check or a little symbol to represent that it has been submitted. As a student myself I get a lot of anxiety when handing in work and a symbol would be reassuring. Secondly, when a student is done with an assignment, it should be removed from the upcoming area. It could be externally confusing. Either take it out or put a check showing that it has been done. Lastly (this more or person suggestions) even though it may seem like it’s not a big deal, but allowing students to customize it seem pretty cool. No offense to the designers but it’s kinda ugly, which might make some students unmotivated. The option to make is cool, might make us students like to website more. And yeah, that about it.
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Let Us Delete Assignments
I think this is a great platform for learning especially during the Coronavirus outbreak. From a student who has only been using this app for around two years, I do not have many complaints. The biggest one is how we are not allowed to un submit an assignment once we turn it in. I personally have had multiple problems with having to submit an updated version or submitting the wrong assignment and confusing my teachers. Since there is coronavirus and most kids are learning online I also feel that we should be able to use the conference feature through the app instead of going on a third party search engine. For my school I use Zoom and Schoology Conferences. I feel that for many other students and I would have an easier time on this app during such a rough time if you made these feature available. Thank you.
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Had great potential but executed poorly 😞
I just moved back to Houston for middle school and I’ve never used Schoology until this year, and I was disappointed. I like the idea of having folders, but how it was executed, made it harder to get to get your assignments for class that day. Especially on a mobile device. I was trying to submit an assignment through email to my teacher and this mobile setup made me confused,frustrated, and stressed out. I know this sounds stupid but I got so stressed that I started to cry and shake.
Sometimes the app will turn into a black screen, logout me out, or kick me out and delete my progress. I don’t use this app for big assignments like a essay but for things like uploading videos, sending emails, or checking my grades if out and about.
I would prefer to use Google Classroom since it’s easier to track down grades and assignments for each class. I wish there was an easier way to set up both mobile and online setup so I won’t feel like throwing my phone and IPad away.
Sometimes the app will turn into a black screen, logout me out, or kick me out and delete my progress. I don’t use this app for big assignments like a essay but for things like uploading videos, sending emails, or checking my grades if out and about.
I would prefer to use Google Classroom since it’s easier to track down grades and assignments for each class. I wish there was an easier way to set up both mobile and online setup so I won’t feel like throwing my phone and IPad away.
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Schoology is fine.
That’s about the best praise I can give it. My public school system switched from Google Classroom to this platform for hybrid learning this year because of the feature where they can track users’ exact time and activity on the app (a bit Big Brother-y for me, but okay). The web version works. The design overall is terrible, but it does what it needs to. This app, however, not so much. My teachers have regularly added embedded slides and documents to the updates section of the program, which just simply don’t show up on the app. The video conferencing is another big issue - we use it regularly, and it’s nowhere to be seen on the app. Honestly, don’t even waste your time downloading and setting this up when it works perfectly fine on Safari. To the developers of Schoology: make the web version and the iOS app the same. It’s extremely frustrating to not be able to see conferences and certain updates on my iPad that my classmates are seeing on their laptops, and I’ve been late to classes and missing assignments because of it.
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Might be biased, but...
Aside from how unorganized the app is, the features it lacks, and how the Home Screen resembles Facebook, I want to talk about “bugs.” Are they bugs? I don’t know. So, I don’t get email if I get a missing assignment, nor is there a menu to see any missing assignments, which needs to be added. However, my parents get an email pretty much right after the assignment is declared late. And here’s another thing: the way schoology counts missing assignments is weird. If an assignment hasn’t been graded EVEN IF THE ASSIGNMENT ISN’T DUE YET, my parents get an email about it, and it adds all sorts of confusion. And in a time where I have to work pretty much exclusively using schoology during the pandemic, it adds all sorts of unnecessary stress. Another thing with the app, when you open another page, like a course, calendar, etc. That’s like opening a new tab in a browser. So if I accidentally miss click, there’s another 30 seconds of waiting because even though I have pretty decent WiFi, schoology servers are being overloaded because of terrible optimization for students. Definitely nitpicking on that, but it needs to be overstated. I know this review will get another automated response and the devs will do nothing about it, but maybe if we spam the app with bad reviews, it will hopefully be removed, and that’s what I’m going for. I hate this app, I have no idea why my school district adopted it. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.
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upset
I’m going to try to be as constructive as possible but to be honestly I’m very frustrated with both the app and the website in general. There is no way to un-submit assignments unless your teacher attaches a student template of a document for you- for example I had to turn in a video that I had supposedly cropped to exclude me turning the camera on and off, but it didn’t show up cropped in the video and there’s no going back. The second issue I have is the upcoming or to-do list. It never removes assignments when you submit them and I have to go back and click through the millions of folders to check whether I’ve done it, and this costs me a lot of time that I don’t have. Additionally, it leads to me forgetting about things that I do need to do. The third thing is that it’s not very reliable. When the servers crash, I can’t work because all my Zoom links (which are my only way of accessing the meetings, we don’t have meeting IDs and passcodes) and assignments are on there. Please fix these things. If you did this would be a much more pleasant to use app.
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Terrible for students and parents
This app is not a solution. It is just another hurdle, difficult to use, and that is not what parents need most during a frickin pandemic. THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION. It’s a hot mess. It’s seemingly based on the Facebook wall, which works when people are posting puppies and food pics, but not for students and something as basic as having a single place to see all assignments due and upcoming tests. We already have something that works the way we need: a grid. With columns. Radical, right? A page that is just a grid of what’s due and when. No, instead we get a wall where everything is poured in, kitchen sink and all, and we have to scroll and pick and hunt and search for something we should see on a macro level. If the teacher isn’t great updating, then parents are really hosed. Each time I open this stupid app (which requires parent’s to sign a Terms of Service akin to Facebook, where they are CLEARLY sharing or selling student data... and the argument that there is such a thing an NII is laughable these days) I am frustrated. This app is frustrating. It’s poorly designed, it is a whole new way for kids to get lost and fall behind... and for parents trying to help and keep up? it offers no help. This is a bad app. This is a company with a questionable TOS regarding children’s privacy. It’s the wrong choice. Period.
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Absolute trash
My school switched from google classroom to Schoology and it is the most unconventional website/app I have ever chosen. The design of it is almost archaic and it is very difficult to navigate. Some problems: turning in assignments are very difficult. The process of importing files is extremely annoying, and many google form assignments do not mark the assignment as done so it looks like we didn’t do the assignment. Additionally, during class many teachers require us to have multiple tabs with several assignments at the same time. Unlike google classroom, it does not automatically open assignments in new tabs so I find myself constantly clicking back and forth between pages. Finding assignments and resources is also very difficult. Unless I know the exact folder or tab it is in, I end up needing to spend a long time just navigating assignments. The app itself won’t even let me log in even if I have my log in information but even then it’s very deification for me to stay updated with assignments and notifications from teachers. I have nothing positive to say... :(
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