Edmodo Blog / 2008
General • Video - Posted on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
I just wanted to write and let everybody know Edmodo is on Twitter. We have been on twitter for quite some time, but really haven’t promoted the account. As we near launch we are going to start to use the Edmodo twitter account a bit more for announcements, help, support, and pretty much however you [...]
General • Video - Posted on Saturday, May 24th, 2008
We are launching Edmodo…. NOW!!!!
Big news today: We have just launched Edmodo at http://www.edmodo.com and invite you to come sign up. What is Edmodo? Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other. Teachers also have the ability to mark any post from their [...]
General - Posted on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
New features – Calendar & Notifications
I just wanted to let everyone know we launched Notifications on Sunday & we Launched a simple calendar yesterday. You can setup your notifications in the settings tab and you should now see a calendar tab inside your Edmodo account. Cheers, The Edmodo Team
General - Posted on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Please bear with us as we get our blog put back together. We re-designed the blog and switched blog engines. If your visiting us for the first time, don’t forget to subscribe to our blog in your favorite RSS reader.
General - Posted on Saturday, September 20th, 2008
We now have a documentation wiki
One of the things we have been lacking is documentation about Edmodo and how to use it. So we have just setup a wiki at http://wiki.edmodo.com. We currently have 4 guides posted and we will be posting more. Teacher Quickstart Guide Student Quickstart Guide Posting to Edmodo Upload an Avatar If you have any tips [...]
General - Posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2008
We have been getting some great press over the last 3 weeks since we launched Edmodo. I wanted to share some of the best articles with you. http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=432 – What students think of Edmodo http://mashable.com/2008/09/18/edmodo/ http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=403 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/edmodo-twitter-for-educators/ http://www.openeducation.net/2008/09/20/edmodo-free-microblogging-site-for-educators/ http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_passports/2008/09/05/edmodo-twitter-designed-for-the-classroom/ http://www.blogher.com/edmodo-microblogging-classroom We have been really humbled by the support that people have given to Edmodo and [...]
General • Press - Posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Assignment Turn-In & Grading System Launched
When we launched Edmodo just a little over a month ago our assignment system was pretty much just a notification for assignments. We are proud to announce a complete Assignment Turn-In and Grading system has been added to Edmodo. After a teacher has posted an assignment in Edmodo a student will see a link to [...]
Features • General • How-to - Posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Classroom 2.0 Live Workshop Lightning Demo
Last friday a teacher using Edmodo, Phil Cook, gave a demo at the Classroom 2.0 Live Workshop in Chicago, IL. I decided to go and video the demo, take some pictures, and answering any questions anybody might have about edmodo.
General - Posted on Monday, November 10th, 2008
You can now edit posts on Edmodo!!!
We just pushed out our #1 requested feature: you can now edit posts! This shouldn’t need much more explanation than you click the edit link on posts you have created, edit your post, and save. Please let us know if you have any problems.
Features • General - Posted on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
You can now search within Edmodo
One of the critical features missing from Edmodo was the ability to search your posts. We can finally say that this has been corrected as the search feature was rolled out quietly last week. Search works based on which group’s posts you are viewing at the time of the search. If you’re viewing the “everything” [...]
Features • General - Posted on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
