Schoology's elementary experience provides a simplified, visual course layout designed to engage younger learners and make course content easier to navigate. Schoology built this experience to better serve the needs of grades K through 5, especially pre-readers.
Key features
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A simplified course layout with streamlined navigation
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A more visual experience with card-based course materials and folders
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The ability for teachers to add images to folders and materials
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Flexible assignment submissions, including file uploads, typed responses, photos, audio recordings, video recordings, and annotations
Before you begin
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A system administrator must enable Course Themes in Feature Options for your school district before teachers can use the elementary experience.
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If the Course Theme option is not available in your course settings, contact PowerSchool Support.
Enable the elementary experience for a class
Teachers can enable the elementary experience for any of their courses from Course Settings.
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From a course, select Course Options.
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Select Edit Privacy / Course Settings.
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From Course View Settings, select Elementary from the Course Theme list.
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Click Save Changes.
The elementary theme only changes your course display for students. There is no option to select a course landing page since the Materials display is the primary experience for elementary.
Teachers can use the View Course As feature to preview the elementary experience for the course from a student's perspective. Alternatively, teachers can create and add a test student account to their course. Depending on your method of provisioning, this test account may be unenrolled after a daily sync. Contact PowerSchool Support if you have questions about creating test accounts in your organization.
Preview the course from the students' perspective
Teachers may use the View Course As feature to preview how the elementary experience displays for their students.
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At least one member must be enrolled in the course to use View Course As.
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Teachers who want to use View Course As before their course members have been provisioned should contact their system administrator.
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From a course, select Course Options from the course profile picture.
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Choose View Course As.
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Select a student from the list and navigate the course from their perspective.
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After previewing the course as that student, select Exit to return to your regular course display as a teacher. If you need to preview the course as a different student, repeat the previous steps.
Alternatively, teachers can create and add a test student account to their course. Depending on your method of provisioning, this test account may be unenrolled after a daily sync. Contact PowerSchool Support if you have questions about creating test accounts in your organization.