Schoology Tips from Barrington 220 Staff

Our first installment of the new monthly feature, Share Your Best, has been a smashing success! Four amazing Barrington 220 teachers submitted four clever Schoology tips. These teachers will receive a valuable prize, and you may benefit from four new Schoology tips. THANK YOU to our four contributors, Audrey Abboreno (Rose), Jeremy Wemhoff (Roslyn Road), Mary Stec (BMS-P), and Erika Inka (BMS-S)! Here are the tips:

Audrey Abboreno, Barbara Rose Elementary
Create folders in Schoology using the completion component for days when you have a substitute teacher. Students can navigate through the folder independently and complete work at their own pace. This also allows for more simplified sub plans.

Jeremy Wemhoff, Roslyn Road Elementary
When creating a discussion using Schoology, you can hide other students’ responses until they post. There is a button you can click to hide it when creating the discussion. This option requires students to write their own thoughts in the discussion before reading other students’ ideas.

Mary Stec, Barrington Middle School–Prairie Campus
When asking students to submit a URL to an assignment, link a Google Form in your Schoology course that asks for the student's last name, first name, class period, and the web address of the assignment. This allows you to sort the responses by class period and student last name to match your roster. The ease of accessing student work via the spreadsheet is a huge time saver, and in some cases allows the teacher easily check linked work to monitor student progress along the way.

Erika Inka, Barrington Middle School–Station Campus
Schoology just released this new feature this summer! Teachers can now individually assign folders to specific students or groups instead of individually assigning each assignment. Pro Tip: If you create a folder and individually assign to the students who will be grouped together for an extended period of time, all new assignments/documents added will automatically be assigned and visible to just those students.

Each month we will ask Barrington 220 staff to Share Your Best tip, trick, or tactic for a different topic. For October, we are asking you to share tips, tricks, or tactics for using video to demonstrate learning.