Beginning of the Year Procedures

Email your Schoology Course rosters

Once your class rosters are synced into Schoology, you can use Gmail to send messages to your students.  It's really simple!

In Gmail, click to compose an email, and in the "Recipients" field type your school abbreviation and your last name (i.e. ERHS Bange).  This will create a drop-down list of options with all of your Schoology courses.  Just click to select the class you wish to email, and you are good to go!

🚨 Important 🚨 If you used these mailing groups last year, then you must remove them from your Google Contacts before this emailing this year's restore.  Click on the video link to see the 3 simple steps for deleting these old mailing groups.

1. Go to https://contacts.google.com/other

2. Search for last year's class mailing group (i.e. ERHS Bange "Course Name" "Section number") and select them by clicking the checkbox for each one.

3. At the top of the window, click the 3-dot menu icon and choose Delete.

Connect your Schoology Coursework with your Collaborating Teachers

Many of our innovative and supportive classrooms have multiple teachers in the room.  Connect your Schoology course with the other adults in the room.  

1. Once the additional teacher is added to your Course in PowerSchool (check with your administrator to find out how you can be added as an official teacher to the Course), then you can make them an admin in your Schoology course under the Course's Members tab.

2. If you are using the Google Drive Assignments app to distribute assignments and have a collaborating teacher in your class, you will also need to share a folder in your Google Drive

   1. In Google Drive, find the Schoology Google Drive Assignments folder

   2. Locate the subfolder for the specific class you want to share

   3. Share that folder with the collaborating teacher with Edit access.

✨ If you have a student teacher that needs Course access, it's the same process for them.  However, to get started, you must go through your administration. They have two different Google Forms to request PowerSchool and Google access for the college student.