Getting Started

Navigating Schoology

The top navigation bar is visible from anywhere on the site once you have logged in. On the left side of the top bar, you can navigate to the four main areas of Schoology: Home, Courses, Groups and Resources.

Clicking the Schoology logo always brings you back to your home page, the landing page you see when you log in. This is where you see your Recent Activity feed and Course Dashboard. Check out the Home Page section of this guide to learn more about what you see when you first log into Schoology.

Courses Menu

Clicking Courses displays courses you are personally enrolled in. A shield icon displays in the top right corner of the courses you administer.

Your courses are your virtual classrooms. This is where you will instruct, grade, and communicate with your students. Your courses contain all your instructional materials (e.g., files, assignments, and assessments) along with communication and organizational tools strictly associated with the course.

From your Courses drop-down, you can navigate to your existing courses. Clicking See All Courses on the right, allows you to create courses, view current and archived courses, join courses and search for courses. Learn more in our Guide to Schoology Courses.

Groups Menu

Clicking Groups displays the groups you are enrolled in. A shield icon displays in the top right corner of the groups you administer.

Groups are collaborative spaces to share ideas and resources, organize events, and connect with other educators. Groups can be used in many different ways from professional development to student extracurricular activities, so the best way to learn about their potential is simply by joining some open ones. Learn more in our Guide to Schoology Groups.

Resources

Click Resources to create, view, edit, and manage all your instructional resources. From Resources, you can navigate directly to your Personal resources, any Group resources you have access to, all of the Public resources on Schoology, any Resource Apps you may have installed. If you are part of an Enterprise organization that uses Schoology's Assessment Management Platform, this is where you can access any Managed Assessment Teams. Learn more in our article on the Resource Center.

The Resource Center is a centralized place where all of your instructional and professional development materials are kept. It is closely tied to your courses and your groups. You can import files, create new resources, and copy or move them into any or all of or your courses quickly from the Resource Center. You can also share resources with your groups and download them from our Public Resource Library. Any course materials, folders, and even entire courses can be copied in your resources for use on a later date.

1. Navigation Panel — This allows you to navigate around the Resources area of Schoology.

1. Personal: This contains the files, course materials, learning objectives and question banks you have saved to your Resources. Only you are able to

access this area.

2. Public: Public Resources allow you to share resources with the rest of the Schoology community.

3. Groups: You can access items you share in the Resources area of your

Groups from this area, or by navigating to the Group itself.

4. Apps: Install and access Resource Apps here.

5. Assessment: View, administer, and organize Managed Assessments (if

available).

2. Menu Column — This column shows the menu of contents of the Resources area you are viewing based on the left side navigation.

3. Resources View — This is where you can create, view, edit, and manage all your instructional resources.

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