NEIT14+Open+Space+2C+-+Laurel+(off+Lake)

=Schoology LMS Pros & Cons=

Attendance: 13 people

Verne: "Needed LMS rolled out at the same time as 1:1 tablet program. Needed a tool that worked well with mobile devices."


 * Examples of LMS
 * schoology
 * moodle
 * haiku
 * obaverse and obaworld
 * Edline or Blackboard Engage
 * Edmodo
 * Finalsite LMS

How do you choose a company that will be committed to LMS solution? Will they be responsive to your needs?

Schoology Demo
Looks like facebook on full browser: 3 column (menu, postings, schedule/activities). Has calendar. [|Workload planning]. blah blah blah. You can go to https://www.schoology.com/lms.php and see what its feature list is.

Town has a great staircase in the library.

Presenter: Verne Becker (Town School)


 * Town School looked at a lot of different LMS's (Haiku, Moodle, FinalSite, etc.) It went with Schoology based on two major criteria: ease of posting and submitting homeworks, and mobile access (TS is a 1:1 iPad School in 5th and 6th). Many of the features with full scale LMS'es did not jive with Town School.
 * Many of the features (grading, rubric, parent access) turned off by Schoology. Schoology also has a social media aspect which is currrently not being used by TS.
 * While courses can be copied, the rubrics cannot be copied -- acknowledged as a big time bug for future schools looking to do this
 * Ease of use for embedding video,

Overall impressions of people demoing: good, less click heavy than some but not perfect.