Personal Resources

Overview

My Resources, your personal library, is a cloud-based storage space where you can create resources and save your courses and materials. Anything saved in My Resources can be copied and transferred to your courses. After you copy them to a course, you can modify the material to fit specific classroom needs without altering the original copy.

While there's no strict limit on the number of materials you can add, Schoology recommends maintaining 5,000 materials or fewer for optimal performance.

Mobile app accessibility

Resource accessibility varies by mobile platform.

• iOS

  • Files

  • Links

  • Pages

• Android

  • Files

  • Links

Other items can be accessed via mobile or web browser.

Home collection

A collection is like a master folder that holds courses, folders, files, and resources. It helps organize your work by year, grading period, course, and more.

The Home collection is a personal collection of resources created and saved to your Resource Center. This collection exists by default and is only available to you. To share collections of resources with other faculty and connected users, you can create additional collections.

Add a collection

1. Select Resources.

2. From Personal, click the Add Collection (box with a plus sign) icon.

3. Enter a Title.

4. Click Create.

Manage collections

1. Select Resources.

2. From Personal, click the Additional options list and choose:

   • Reorder to arrange the order of your collections. Click the arrow that appears for the collection, drag the collection to your desired location, and then save.

   • Import to import files exported from Moodle 2+, Blackboard, Brainhoney, or Common Cartridge (v1.3). You may also import standard ZIP files as Schoology Collections, or QTI ZIP files from another system.

   • Export to export a collection as a Common Cartridge file (IMSCC v1.3). Common Cartridge files can be imported into systems that support the IMS Common Cartridge format.

3. Optionally, hover over a collection and choose Rename or Delete from the Additional options list. Deletion of a collection cannot be undone.

• There is a file size limit of 10GB for exports.

• The Common Cartridge file version that is exported (v1.3) does not support the following content:

  • Media albums

  • Rubrics

  • SCORM

  • Test and quiz question types:

    • Matching with more than one blank

    • Fill-in-the-blank with more than one blank

    • Ordering

• If you are exporting assessment content, Common Cartridge only supports the following question types:

  • Multiple choice

  • True or false

  • Fill in the blank with no more than one blank

  • Essay

Learning objectives

Use Learning Objectives in My Resources to create custom learning objectives and share them with group members. Depending on the settings in place at your school, you may not have access to the Learning Objectives area in your personal resources.

Downloads

From Downloads in My Resources, access a list of public resources that you’ve downloaded.

Click the resource’s Additional options (gear) icon and choose:

• Add to course if the resource type can be imported to a course you administer.

• Copy to to create a copy of the resource into another collection.

• Move to to move the resource into another collection.

• Delete to delete the resource.

Public resources

From My Resources, select Public to review a list of the resources you’ve added to Public Resources. From the resource’s Additional options (gear) icon, choose:

• Edit public info to adjust the information that appears in Public Resources and update the public area.

• Remove public version to remove this resource from the public area of the Resource Center.

By default, you’ll receive an email when someone rates your public resource. To turn off this setting, visit your Account Notifications.

Share a personal collection

You may choose to share your collection, excluding Home, with other educators or connected users via the Share option.

1. Select Resources.

2. From Personal, select the collection to share from My Resources.

3. Click Share.

4. Select users you’d like to share with and click Add People. Optionally, select a different building to locate other users.

5. Click Save Changes to complete.

Resources within the Home collection cannot be shared.

After you’ve added people, you can adjust permissions or remove members at any time.

1. Select Resources.

2. From Personal, select the collection to modify from My Resources.

3. Click Sharing.

4. From Permissions, update the permission level for users as needed.

5. Optionally, click the delete icon to remove users from accessing the collection.

6. Click Save Changes.

You can also share your resources by making them public.