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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Dear Schoology and WCS board
A year ago, a review was written that shows up in the forefront when viewing this app on the appstore. It is a one star review and brings up so many relevant criticisms. However, this review was written an entire YEAR ago and we still experience the exact same problems with the system as a whole. Williamson County Schools, like many counties, have chosen to rely on Schoology and Zoom in combination in order to teach us remotely. Why is it that- even after being provided so much responsibility and opportunity- Schoology still refuses to rework the clunky and outdated formatting? Us students need a reliable and easy to maneuver system in order to cause the least amount of issues during an already stressful and issue-ridden time. So- to Schoology- listen to what your users have to say, we didn’t choose to use your system, but you can choose to make it easier; and to WCS, stop trying to force us to go back in person when there is no reason to. If the need is due to counseling, keep the counseling open for in person- which would allow for a better focus on assistance over education anyways.
Sincerely, a distressed student and citizen.
Sincerely, a distressed student and citizen.
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No
No
Disappointed!
Im a student and my school requires Schoology to be used as the main program for distance learning. The website is always down or crashed for hours a day and am unable to access a lot of my work in the meantime. Also notifications from Schoology come way later than the posted time by the teacher. For example my teacher will post an assignment at 1pm but I won’t get the notification for it till 5pm. Good thing I check it every hour to avoid this, but most kids won’t.
Update: I get no notifications at all from the Schoology app. Also, something I discovered is that I am not able to remove submissions from being submitted. Sometimes, my assignment does not import properly and it shows “revision 1” and I have no option to delete it and re-submit. Instead, once I re-submit it shows as “revision 2” and the teacher has to go through revision 1 first to get to revision 2 and see the proper assignment. It wastes time for them and is a inconvenience for me as well. I also do not like that the portfolios are not available in the app. Sometimes I need to check my portfolios and have to long in through safari on my phone. It is time consuming and is stupid if I need to check just one thing in my portfolio....
Update: I get no notifications at all from the Schoology app. Also, something I discovered is that I am not able to remove submissions from being submitted. Sometimes, my assignment does not import properly and it shows “revision 1” and I have no option to delete it and re-submit. Instead, once I re-submit it shows as “revision 2” and the teacher has to go through revision 1 first to get to revision 2 and see the proper assignment. It wastes time for them and is a inconvenience for me as well. I also do not like that the portfolios are not available in the app. Sometimes I need to check my portfolios and have to long in through safari on my phone. It is time consuming and is stupid if I need to check just one thing in my portfolio....
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Horrible
My school decided to use Schoology for homeschool this year and they made a horrible mistake. Most of the homeschool are having this problem: we would turn in work and the teacher would not get it. It would say completed with a check mark and everything and the teacher would only get a few assignments. Almost all of the homeschool students are getting the same problem with different subjects. My problem particularly is in Literature. I always double and sometimes triple check that I have done EVERYTHING in that week on Friday and somehow the teacher does not get it. If you are a school, DO NOT put your students through this stress. I am getting bad grades due to this stupid app. And to you, Schoology creators, you should be ashamed of putting students, parents, and teachers through this stress. I am honestly surprised at how horrible this app is. How could anybody give this app any stars? If I could, I would give this app ZERO stars. Yes, I am only twelve in 7th grade, but I am extremely disappointed, and so are my classmates and family.
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bad system, terribly organized
Schoology seems like a great app to use for school & everything going on this year especially with COVID-19, but is it really? All the students are having a hard time trying to figure out everything with it. The due dates are too small, you can’t delete submissions you didn’t mean to send, very unorganized, and doesn’t say the assignment are done even after you submit your response. This is a terrible way to have many students focus on school. The courses you are in show up alphabetically and not in order, which can be very stressful and hard on students who like to be organized or have OCD and need to have it a specific way. The notifications are on the home screen of the app, instead they should have each class, like google classroom, with the due date and time, so you can click the assignment and it’s easy. The folders in the course class are also very hard to understand. Instead of all the assignments popping up you should just be able to click a certain folder and open it and get what you need. Also, when submitting a Google Document or a Word assignment, the assignment gets all messed up when submitted, which can ruin your students grade. This school year, needs to be organized & easy, for all our online, in school, & hybrid students. This is not an organized app for any school to use. Too messy for anyone. Even the teachers are confused on everything. Terrible app. Not recommended.
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Honest feedback?
So my school switched from Blackboard to Schoology this year for the hybrid learning option; two school days and three online days. I’ve always liked Blackboard better because the layout is very simple and it’s easy to access/find things. The theme colors are also very pleasing to the eye. White is a very bright color and I wish Schoology had a dark mode option. The layout is also quite messy and hard to organize things. I do like how you can submit assignments directly through Schoology though. I wish there was a function where when you submit an assignment it has a check mark next to it and when you submit the assignment it checks it off. This would save a lot of time because I have to frequently check which assignments I did. I guess it takes time to get used ton things so overall it’s a pretty good platform. Remember that this feedback is coming from a 7th grade middle school student so I’m trying to be as honest as possible.
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5stars wow factor over 9000
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you dowwwn never gonna run around and desert you
Imagine getting rick rolled by a review on a school app
Imagine getting rick rolled by a review on a school app
Terrible for a parent managing multiple children
When my school district had to change to online learning in 2 days last spring thanks to Covid, they quickly switched to google classroom. While it had its learning curve, within just one week I had figured out how to manage my 4 children in 3 different levels (elementary, middle, h.s) via the “to do” page. I could check from my phone or computer and know in a glance whether my kids were staying on track. This year put district switched to Schoology and I’m having a HORRIBLE time. The “feed” clutters out the visibility of any upcoming assignments. Submitting assignments is clunky and not intuitive or flexible (now to submit a photo of a completed paper takes 5 steps instead of 2). Maybe my mind is more traditional— I hate Facebook because it isn’t neat or orderly/you never know when you’re “done.” Modeling a learning management app off of Facebook seems like a mismatch and the messiness of it shows (endless feed of interaction crowding out the “upcoming assignments” section so you can’t even see what’s incomplete.) We should have stuck with google classroom and I’m so angry they messed with a good thing. Any school districts checking this out, take it from a parent and stay away!
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