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Having a parent account in Schoology is like having two accounts:

A personal account, with your own name and information.
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.

Student homepage features	Description
Student Activity	Displays your student’s recent submissions, grades, and attendance information.
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.
Grades/Attendance	Lists graded assignments, tests, quizzes, discussions, and attendance marks for the student. Select the item for more details.
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. Tests and quizzes are displayed in the To Do list only when submissions are enabled. Grade columns and LTI types are only displayed in Recently Completed after they have been graded.
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.
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.
Grades	Depending on your school’s settings, provides access to the following: Grade Report - to review your student’s grades for all courses. Mastery - if your student’s school aligns materials to standards and learning objectives, check your student’s progress in this area. Attendance - to review student’s attendance for all courses. On smaller devices, such as iPhones, access Grades by tapping More in the header.
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:

Most recent
Updates
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.

Calendar

Access your calendar from the calendar icon in the header of your account. Your calendar displays personal events you've created for your account, events, assessments, courses, and groups in which you're enrolled.

Create personal events

From the header, select the Calendar icon. Alternatively, select Event from Recent Activity.
Select the date to add the event.
Enter the details in the Event form.
Optionally, attach a file, link, resource, or audio/video recording from the bottom ribbon of the rich text editor.
Optionally, choose an RSVP option. You can set it to Disabled, Only invitees can RSVP, and Anyone can RSVP (public event). Depending on the settings in place at your school, this option may not be available to you.
From Options, select the Comments icon to enable or disable comments.
Select Create.

Edit an event

Select the event to modify.
Select Edit Item.
After you've made changes, select Save Changes.

Delete an event

Select the event to delete.
Select View Item.
Select the gear for the event profile.
Select Delete.

If you choose to create an event with an invitation from your home page, you must invite everyone manually.

Messages

Access your messages from the Messages icon (envelope) in the header. Depending on the settings in place at your school, you may be able to exchange messages with teachers at your school.

There is no Messages icon in the Child Activity display. Messages to your child are private and are not accessible from a Parent account.

Check new messages

When you have a new message in your inbox, the Messages icon displays a new number.

Click the Messages icon (envelope) to display a list of recent messages.
Select the message you'd like to read. New messages are indicated with a blue dot.
Optionally, enter a response in the Message area and click Send.

Check sent messages

Click the Messages icon (envelope) and select View All.
Click Sent Messages.
To read a message, select a message you've sent in the past.
To send a message, select +New Message.
Enter the message details and select Send.
A recipient name automatically populates when you enter a teacher's name in the To field. If you cannot send a message to certain users, talk to your child's teacher for further guidance.

If you have linked accounts in Schoology, check for new messages in each of your linked accounts.

Notifications and requests

The bell icon in the header displays Notifications and Requests. Any time someone sends you a message, wants to connect, or does something that pertains to you or your affiliations, it will be available in this area, chronologically ordered and clickable.

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