Schoology Students

Option 1: Use the View Course As tool in a course to view the course as a specific student enrolled in that course.

1. Navigate to the course

2. In the course, click Course Options beneath the course profile photo

3. Select View Course As. Select the students’ name from the list. (Screenshot images).

Option 2: Add a sample student or demo student and login to Schoology as the student

1. Navigate to the course

2. In the course, click Members on the left side

3. Click the Add Members button at the top

4. Change the school at the upper right to Howell Public Schools

5. Choose EL Sample, MS Sample, or HS Sample depending on your building level

6. Click the Add Members button at the bottom

7. Log out of Schoology, and log back in as elsample@howellschools.com (for EL Sample) and the password is hps12345

8. Please remember to remove the sample student after you are done. The Sample accounts are public, and anyone can login and see your course while the Sample student is added to your course.

Every student in Schoology (as of 8/15) has already been added to an Introduction to Schoology for Students course that contains tutorials on how to use Schoology. If you just wanted to join that course yourself to work through the tutorials, you can use the following course codes:

• Challenger: 54MF-2V6V-5FHQ4

• Hutchings: 6NZB-N28Z-NQ8KG

• Northwest: BRGW-T9T5-3SG62

• Southwest: HPXS-GT44-SFVMS

• Three Fires: C655-R6BC-RXWHS

• Voyager: ZP4C-M5VT-SFGR7

• HWMS grade 6: FR6K-FVVT-RVB6H

• HWMS grade 7: 2STS-8577-S3JZJ

• HWMS grade 8: 83B5-HRPF-7NGP3

• PMS grade 6: 3FDD-4SZG-KSZ78

• PMS grade 7: F4M8-3BPC-ZSCM3

• PMS grade 8: HFFZ-WNGP-7DM6Z

• HHS grade 9: T563-HQR5-5C4SJ

• HHS grade 10: 9B7D-G7KV-T3MPF

• HHS grade 11: P3JH-T6ZQ-SDF4X

• HHS grade 12: BD5N-7FX3-26CWM

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Unit Zero for Teachers to use with Students

The same material is inside the Unit Zero module in the Schoology Course Templates in the Group Resources areas.

1. In Schoology, click on the Resources area at the top

2. Click on the Group icon on the far left

3. Click on any o the grade level or school groups in the middle left (like 5th grade teachers or Howell High School)

4. Inside the Elementary Course Template, Middle School Course Template, or High School Course Template is a Unit Zero - How to Use Schoology module. Click on the gear icon to the right and select Add to Course

5. Check the box for the course you want to use, then click the Add button at the bottom.

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Try disconnecting and reconnecting your Google account to Schoology:

1. When you're in the assignment, Click on the My Document tab

2. On the right, click the link that says, Can't see your document? Click here.

3. That will log you out of your Google account. Click the blue Connect button where the document would normally show.

4. Log back into your @howellschools.com Google account

5. You should be able to view the document in the My Document tab, and submit.

Also, verify your "Cookies and site data" settings to make sure third-party cookies are allowed. On your Chromebook:

1. Click the 3 dots in the upper right corner

2. Go to Settings

3. Expand "Cookies and other site data"

4. Easy solution: Select "Allow all cookies" or "Block third-party cookies in Incognito"

5. Optional, harder solution: You can leave the setting on "Block third-party cookies" if you also add "[*.]google.com" (no quotation marks) under "Sites that can always use cookies." This is required because when you are on the Schoology website, Google is considered a "third party" and you won't be able to login to your Google account inside Schoology if "third-party cookies" are blocked.

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This typically means the teacher's Google Drive account has become disconnected from Schoology somehow. It may be an issue with Google, or with Schoology.

To reconnect your account, the easiest process is to:

1. Create a new Google Drive assignment in Schoology (Add Materials -> Add Assignment -> Click Google Drive Assignments button)

2. It may say "You are not connected to Google Drive." Click the blue Connect button and login with your @howellschools.com Google account.

3. If you don't see the blue Connect button, but instead see your Google Drive files, click on the Options menu and select Account Settings, then click the Logout link. Then you'll see the blue Connect button.

4. When connecting, you may be asked to give permission for Schoology to access your Google Drive account.

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Students must be logged into the Chrome browser (not just logged into Schoology) with their @howellschools.com Google account. They should see the Texthelp PDF Reader extension and the Read&Write for Google Chrome extension in their Chrome browser extensions. (To see extensions, click on the puzzle piece in the top right of the Chrome browser.)

Also, verify your "Cookies and site data" settings to make sure third-party cookies are allowed. On your Chromebook:

1. Click the 3 dots in the upper right corner

2. Go to Settings

3. Expand "Cookies and other site data"

4. Easy solution: Select "Allow all cookies" or "Block third-party cookies in Incognito"

5. Optional, harder solution: You can leave the setting on "Block third-party cookies" if you also add "[*.]google.com" and "[*.]texthelp.com" (no quotation marks) under "Sites that can always use cookies." This is required because when you are on the Schoology website, Google is considered a "third party" and you won't be able to login to your Google account inside Schoology if "third-party cookies" are blocked.

Finally, some PDFs (especially those provided by publishers) may have password security that prevent tools like Texthelp PDF Reader from editing the document. To check if your PDF is locked, you can upload your PDF to the Tingtun accessibility checker at http://checkers.eiii.eu/en/pdfcheck/ . If the tool gives an error about "decryption" - that means the PDF is locked. You will need to convert it to an unlocked PDF before using it with students in Schoology / Texthelp PDF Reader.

1. If the original PDF isn't in Google Drive already, first upload it to Google Drive

2. Double-click the PDF in Google Drive to open it with the Google Drive PDF viewer

3. You should see the PDF inside your Chrome browser, with a normal name at the top. Click on the printer icon in the upper right.

4. It will open up a new tab showing the PDF again, except with a really long, weird name at the top. This is the "printed" version of the PDF. Move the mouse to the upper right, and click on the printer icon again.

5. Now, a print window pops up. Change the "Destination" to "Save to Google Drive." This will actually create a new PDF inside your Google Drive, without the password security. Also, click the "Advanced settings" button.

6. Remember that long, weird name in step 4 above? Clicking on "Advanced settings" lets you give the new PDF a normal name, like "Homelink 1.8 printed" or something like that. Then click on "Apply."

7. Now, click "Save" at the bottom of the print window to create the new PDF (with no password security) in your Google Drive. This is the version that you want to use with your students so they can actually edit the PDF. If the original PDF was accessible by a text reader (and Everyday Math PDFs are), then the printed version will still be accessible by a text reader.

Note: Google is removing the ability to print directly to Google Drive in December 2020. It's still possible to use Google to convert PDFs that have password security by following steps 1-4 above, then:

5. Now, a print window pops up. Change the "Destination" to "Save as PDF." This will actually create a new PDF and download it to your computer, without the password security.

6. Find the new PDF downloaded to your computer, and rename it as appropriate.

7. Now, upload that new PDF without the password security to Google Drive, and use that version with Schoology / Texthelp. Students will be able to annotate / edit that version of the PDF.

Schoology syncs class rosters with PowerSchool, so if the students are not rostered in PowerSchool, they will not stay added in Schoology. In order to add students in Schoology, they will need to be added in PowerSchool first.

Another possible alternative is to give the student the "Access Code" for the course (highlighted in green on the left side for the teacher). That would allow the student to join the course. S/he would have to add him/herself every time after PowerSchool syncs with Schoology, but at least the student could manage his/her own access without needing the teacher to manually add the student every time.

In general, overdue assignments will remain in your calendar until one of two things happen: either you submit the assignment, or the teacher enters a grade (or grade exception) for you in their Schoology gradebook.

If it's an overdue assignment that you can still submit, submitting anything in Schoology will remove the reminder from your calendar.

If it's an overdue assignment that you can no longer submit, you'll have to ask the teacher to assign you a grade or a grade exception in their Schoology gradebook for you, for that assignment.