Connections

Schoology provides a great way for educators to connect with other educators, either within an organization or globally throughout Schoology.

Connections offer a way to share with other educators on Schoology on an individual level, rather than via a shared School, Group, or Course.

Why should I connect with other users?

Connecting with other users gives you two advantages:

1. You can more easily share information with connections.

2. You can limit your account privacy settings to connections.

   

   You must verify your account to use the connections feature. The option to add connections depends on the settings in place at your school or organization. Reach out to your support contact with any questions.

Who can I connect with?

In general, faculty roles can connect with other faculty roles. This means an instructor in one school can connect with another instructor in a different school, allowing educators from around the world to connect.

Since students and parents are not considered faculty, they cannot form connections with other users. In some cases, the system administrator at a school or organization may place some restrictions on the users with whom you may connect.

What are the requirements for connections?

Your Schoology account must be verified to use connections. You can use connections based on settings in place at your school or organization. Reach out to your support contact if you're unsure.

Additionally, your profile must be listed in the Schoology directory to allow other educators to search for you and send a connection request.

To list your profile in the Schoology directory:

1. Click your account, and then select Settings.
2. Select Privacy Settings.
3. From Search Settings, select List profile in Schoology directory.

How do I find connections?

Use the search tool in the Schoology header to find and connect with educators. 

To search for a specific person:

1. Click Search (magnifying glass) icon.
2. Enter the name of the person you are trying to locate.
3. Review the search results, and click Connect for the user with whom you want to connect.

You may also review faculty information from the School profile.

1. Select your account from the Schoology header.
2. Select the name of your school or organization.
3. Choose Faculty.
4. Select the name of the user with whom you want to connect.
5. Click Connect.
   
   

Sometimes, a school or organization blocks user accounts from connecting with others. In other cases, users can’t connect because they haven’t verified their Schoology accounts.

Privacy settings

After you’ve made a connection with another user, you’ll notice an additional column in your personal account settings for Connections. This additional threshold allows you to tighten certain privacy settings so that only those with whom you’re connected have access to review the information in your profile. It also allows you to determine users with whom you may communicate through Schoology messages.

Share information

Personal updates

You can also update or share information with your connections by creating a personal update. Normally, users must navigate to your profile to review your updates. However, when you have a connection, personal updates of connected users are displayed in the Recent Activity feed on your Home page.

Resources

Connections let you share your personal resource collections. When you navigate to a collection in your personal resources, other than your Home collection, a Share option is available. This allows you to share resources with your school’s faculty and your connections.

When a connection shares a resource with you, a menu notification in your account provides the name of the person and the shared item.