Having a parent account in Schoology is like having two accounts:
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A personal account, with your own name and information.
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A child activity display, where you can access your student’s activities and receive updates about their activity.
Child activity
To switch from your account to your student's account, select your name and choose your student’s name from the list. If you have multiple students associated with your account, the list displays a checkmark to indicate which account you are currently reviewing.
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Student homepage features |
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Student Activity |
Displays your student’s recent submissions, grades, and attendance information. |
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Enrollments |
Display your student’s currently enrolled courses and grades if the teacher or administrator has chosen to display grades while the course is in progress. Optionally, display past courses. Select an individual course to review grades received on assignments, assessments, and discussions from that course. Depending on the permission settings in place at your school, you may not be able to access content posted by other members of the course. |
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Grades/Attendance |
Lists graded assignments, tests, quizzes, discussions, and attendance marks for the student. Select the item for more details. |
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To Do |
Displays events, assignments, tests, quizzes, and discussions that have an associated due date. Move your pointer over each item to display the item’s course or group association, or over the clock or exclamation point icons to display the material due date. If a student has more than three overdue items, an option will be displayed to access the additional overdue work. The Recently Completed section displays gradable materials that have been submitted. Move your pointer over the material’s icons to display grade details, if graded.
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Courses |
Review a list of your student’s current courses. Select the course name to navigate to your student’s course profile. Depending on the school’s permission settings, you may not have access to content posted by other members of the course. The Courses list displays up to 12 courses. To display a full list of your student’s courses, select Enrollments from the home page. If you're using the Elementary Experience, review the Elementary Experience - Parent Guide help page. |
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Groups |
Review a list of your student’s Schoology groups. Groups can be used for different activities, from school projects to extracurricular teams and clubs. Depending on the school’s permission settings, you may not have access to content posted by other members of the group. The Groups list displays up to 12 groups. To display a full list of your child's groups, select Enrollments from the home page. |
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Grades |
Depending on your school’s settings, provides access to the following:
On smaller devices, such as iPhones, access Grades by tapping More in the header. |
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Calendar |
Displays past and upcoming events and assignments. To display more information regarding a particular event, move the pointer over the title. A clue tip displays with the event type, the event's course or group, and the student's name. Select the event to display more information in a dialog window. |
There is no Message icon in the Child Activity display. Messages to your child are private and are not accessible from a Parent account.
Your account activity
To return to your Schoology account, select the student’s name and choose your name from the list. If you have linked accounts in Schoology, the school associated with each account will display with your name.
When in your account, your name will be displayed in the header. Your account home page displays activity related to any courses and groups that you are enrolled in and school information from the school with which you are associated.
Recent activity
Similar to your student’s Activity Summary, your Recent Activity area displays updates from the school, courses, and groups in which you participate.
You can filter the Recent Activity feed by:
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Most recent
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Updates
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Polls
Select Most Recent and select your preferred feed view.
Upcoming events
From Recent Activity, the Upcoming Events section displays a list of impending events for your school. To access additional details about the event, select the event name.