Home page (students)

Your home page is the first page you reach 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 Most Recent and select a filtering option.

Course Dashboard

The Course Dashboard displays all your courses as a tiled list. You can drag and drop the tiles to rearrange the order of your courses on the dashboard. This order will also be reflected in the Courses drop-down menu.

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

From the Course Dashboard, choose a course to navigate to its main landing page.

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

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

The Recently Completed section displays materials submitted to be graded. Move the pointer over the icons associated with each material to display the grading status or the grade for that assignment.

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

Use the Calendar link in the Upcoming section to navigate to your Calendar. 

Grades and attendance

Select Grades, and then select Grade Report or Attendance.

Grade report

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

Optionally, select Download Student Report to download a copy of the 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

The App Center allows your teachers to give you 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 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 accessible.

Click the Calendar icon 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

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 create a personal event, you can drag and drop it to move it to another day on your calendar.

Edit an 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

1. Click the event you'd like to delete.
2. Click View Item.
3. Click the gear icon.
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.
4. Enter a subject and message.
5. Optionally, add files, links, or resources.

6. 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. From the header, click the envelope icon to navigate to your Messages. 
2. Click the message you'd like to read. 
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. Click the message you want to read. 

Search messages

Users can search for messages from their inbox.

To search from 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.

Click a notification or request to access the related content.

Site footer

The site footer of every page 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, support options, and links to the Schoology Help Center and Community forums.
• Schoology Blog — Use this to navigate to our blog, the Schoology Exchange.
• Privacy Policy — Access our Privacy Policy.
• Terms of Use —Access our Terms of Use.