Schoology Learning release notes: September 2025

New Schoology apps in the App Center

Breakout EDU

Unlock the power of game-based learning. Breakout EDU transforms learning through collaborative puzzles that promote critical thinking, communication, and teamwork. Designed for K–12 classrooms, Breakout EDU supports engagement across all subject areas while aligning with academic standards and social-emotional skill development.

This integration allows educators and students to securely access Breakout EDU using their Schoology credentials with single sign-on (SSO), making it easier than ever to launch games, track progress, and support meaningful learning experiences—all from one platform.

OSE on Carolina

Carolina has been serving science educators for over 90 years with outstanding products for all grade levels. Many of the resources in Carolina Science Online supplement our hands-on science products. Our goal is to provide attractive and stimulating resources that will help you enhance your lessons and engage your students.

This LTI 1.3 app is configured for deep linking – instructors can select from content hosted on Carolina Science Online, and students can use the resulting link to launch directly to that content. This app also provides Assignment and Grade services – instructors can view their students' work and assign grades within Carolina Science Online, and those grades will be passed into to the Schoology gradebook.

JoVE LTI Tool

JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science videos with the mission to improve scientific research and education. Millions of scientists, educators and students at thousands of universities, colleges, hospitals, and biopharmaceutical companies worldwide use JoVE for their research, teaching and learning. Our LTI tool provides you access to all our world class content directly from your Brightspace instance.

PowerBuddy tools features

• Instructors can access prior versions of generated content during a single user session by clicking the Draft history icon.

• Drop-down menus are text-searchable.

PowerBuddy tool updates

The language drop-down was removed for the following tools:

• Lesson hook

• Science lab

• Project-based learning

• Social story

• Student choice board

PowerBuddy chat assistant - Socratic method improvements

The following updates have been made to PowerBuddy conversations:

• More tailored to the assignment expectations and context

• Shortened responses with a focus on the end goal of an assignment

• Removal of suggestions to eliminate leading and answers being shown

• Feature a more student-centered approach for guidance and working through conversations

• Math improvements are more rigid and less leading

Updates to PowerBuddy content filtering

PowerBuddy content filtering now has:

• Refined the accuracy of content filtering

• More understanding of the topic to understand the learning relevance

PowerBuddy Analytics

PowerBuddy Analytics offers comprehensive metrics and visualizations to help district administrators monitor and analyze usage patterns and engagement levels of both students and educators using PowerBuddy for Learning. This includes all its features: the PowerBuddy student chat assistant, PowerBuddy chat logs, and PowerBuddy tools.
Administrators can access PowerBuddy Analytics from the PowerBuddy AI settings in Schoology. The data can be reviewed in two formats: a consolidated district-wide overview or filtered by a specific building. Additionally, administrators can filter the data based on a selected date range.
In an upcoming version, PowerBuddy Analytics will support the selection of multiple buildings, enabling more effective review and analysis.

PowerBuddy tools - Updated Favorites header

The PowerBuddy tools header for favorite tools was updated to Favorites instead of Favorites for Schoology.

PowerBuddy tool updates

The language drop-down was removed for the following tools:

• Essential questions

• Family communication

• Group work generator

• Learning target generator

PowerBuddy tools removed from Schoology

The following tools were removed from Schoology:

• IEP goal generator

• 504 plan draft

• Behavior Support