Home Page (Students)

Your home page is the first place you'll land when you log in to Schoology. Your home page may display your Recent Activity or a Course Dashboard.

Recent Activity

Recent Activity displays all comments and updates about your schools, courses, and groups. To filter your feed so that it only displays Updates, Polls, or Blog posts, click the Most Recent link and select a filtering option.

Course Dashboard

The Course Dashboard displays all your courses as a tiled list. Drag and drop the tiles to rearrange the order of your courses on the dashboard. This also rearranges the order in the Courses drop-down menu.

Only the first 12 tiles appear in the Courses drop-down menu.

From the Course Dashboard, click any of your courses to go directly to its main landing page.

If you would prefer to display the Course Dashboard as your default home page, you can adjust this in your Account Settings.

PowerBuddy Chat Logs

Select Access chat history to review your past chats with PowerBuddy.

Depending on the settings in place at your school, PowerBuddy chat logs may not be available to you.

To Do

The To Do section of your home page displays events, assignments, tests and quizzes, and discussions with an associated due date.

Hover over each item to display the course or group associated with the item, or hover over the clock or exclamation point icons to display when the material is due. If a student has more than three overdue items, an option will display to allow the user to access the additional overdue work.

The Recently Completed section displays grade-able materials that have been submitted. Hover over the icons associated with each material to display if the assignment has been graded, and the percentage grade for that assignment.

• More than three items will be displayed in the To Do list if they have the same due date. 
• Test/Quiz displays in the To Do list only when submissions are enabled.
• Grade Columns and LTI types will only display in Recently Completed once graded.

You may access your Calendar via the Calendar link in the Upcoming panel.

Grades and Attendance

Select Grades at the top of Schoology and select either Grade Report or Attendance.

Grade Report

The Grade Report displays a breakdown of your grades for each course. Click a specific course to display each graded item, your grade, the maximum points, and any comments from the instructor.

You may also download a student report by clicking Download Student Report.

Attendance

The attendance area displays a record of the days you were marked absent, late, or excused. Instructors can also leave comments, which will appear in the Comments section.

Depending on the settings in place at your school, Grades and some of its contents may not be available to you. Contact your instructor with any questions about which grades appear to students in this area.

Search

Use the Search tool (magnifying glass icon) to search for your teachers, courses, and groups.

App Center

Schoology’s App Center allows your teachers to provide you with access to content and software developed by other companies from directly within the Schoology website.

Depending on the settings in place at your school, the App Center and some of its contents may not be available to you. Contact your instructor with any questions about which apps are available to students in this area.

Calendar

The Schoology Calendar is an organizational element for your connections, courses, and groups. It keeps events and due dates organized and easily accessible. Click on the Calendar icot to access events and due dates by month, week, or day. Each item is color-coded depending on courses, groups, school, or personal events. Due dates for assignments, assessments, and important course-related events are automatically added to your calendar and managed by your instructor.

Create personal events

To add events to your calendar:

1. Select the Calendar icon in the header.
2. Click the date to which you'd like to add the event.
3. Fill out the Event form.
4. Optionally add any documents, links, or resources.
5. Click Create to complete.

After you have created a personal event you can drag-and-drop it to move it to another day on your calendar.

Edit an event

To modify an existing personal event:

1. Select the event you'd like to modify.
2. Click Edit Item.
3. After you've finished editing your event, click Save Changes.

Delete an event

To delete a personal event:

1. Click the event you'd like to delete.
2. Click View Item.
3. Click the gear icon to the right of the event profile.
4. Select Delete to remove the event.

Messages

Depending on the settings in place at your school, you may be able to receive and send messages to teachers at your school.

Send a message

1. Click the envelope icon in the header.
2. Click New Message.
3. Enter the recipient's name in the To field. A list of users automatically populates as you type.
4. Select the user from the list.
5. Enter a subject and message.
6. Add optional files, links, or resources.

7. Click Send to complete.

   

   A recipient name will automatically populate when you enter a teacher's name into the To field. It may take a moment for a name to populate. If you cannot send a message to peers or certain users, contact your teacher for further advice.

Check new messages

When you have a new message in your inbox, the Messages icon in the header will display an updated number based on how many new messages you have.

1. Navigate to your Messages area by clicking the envelope icon in the header.
2. Click the message you'd like to read. New messages have a dot icon indicator with the message.
3. To reply to a message, enter a comment in the Message area, and click Send.

Check sent messages

1. Click the envelope icon in the header.
2. Click View All.
3. Select the Sent Messages tab.
4. To read a message, click on a message you've sent in the past.

Search messages

Users can search for messages from their inbox.

To search from either the Inbox or Sent Messages tab, enter a keyword in the search field, then press Enter or click the magnifying glass icon.

Notifications

Notifications display course events in chronological order and requests to RSVP to calendar events. A number on the bell icon indicates new notifications or requests. Clicking a notification or request will allow you to access the related content.

Site footer

At the bottom of every Schoology page, the site footer includes the following:

• Language Selector — Use this menu to set the language of your Schoology experience.
• Support Center — Access the Support Center to display your Support Contacts and support options, as well as links to the Schoology Help Center and Community forums.
• Schoology Blog — Navigate to our blog, the Schoology Exchange.
• Privacy Policy — Access our Privacy Policy.
• Terms of Use —Access our Terms of Use.