Edmodo Blog / 2009
How-To change your Edmodo Group code
Up until now, if any of your codes for your Edmodo groups got out, you couldn’t do much short of contacting us and manually changing the code for your group. Now you can change the group code you hand out to students yourself. You can use this to lock out any new group members once [...]
Features • How-to - Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Creative Commons in Education & the Classroom
I often get asked about what type of content is legal to use on School & Teacher’s websites. I explain that it is not ok to use copyrighted material that other people own on their websites. I try to explain to them what Creative Commons (CC) is and why they should think about using CC [...]
General • Press - Posted on Saturday, February 28th, 2009
For the last few months we have been hard at work on version 2.0 of Edmodo and we would now like to share it with you. Notable new features visible to users Redesigned Home Page Tagging of all posts Locker has been removed in favor of tagging, all previous posts will be moved to a [...]
Features • General - Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Edmodo gets nod in 2009 Horizon Report K-12 Edition
I just wanted to share with the Edmodo Community that we got mentioned in the 2009 Horizon Report K-12 Edition that was released earlier this month. We also received a mention in the eSchool news article “Six technologies soon to affect education” based on our mention in the Horizon report. Unfortunately to see our blurb [...]
General • Press - Posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009
The EdTech Podcast just released Episode #5 where Chris & Matt interview myself (Jeff O’Hara) and we talk about Edmodo, the new Amazon Kindle, and other topics related to education technology. The EdTech podcast is very new as you can see by this only being their fifth episode, but it is quickly shaping up to [...]
General - Posted on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Edmodo outage – restored from backup
Edmodo hit a little rough patch this morning and we had to restore from last nights backup which was done about 5:00am CST 5-15-2009. Here is what happened. We have two versions of Edmodo, one that everyone uses and one that is purely for development, but unfortunately they were sharing the same production database. Essentially [...]
General - Posted on Friday, May 15th, 2009
Thank you for a successful Year
With the school year coming to a close for most of the U.S., Nic and I wanted to send a big thank you to all the Edmodo users that have helped make Edmodo a success. It has blown our mind since launching in September of 2008, 37,786 students and teachers have signed up for Edmodo, [...]
General - Posted on Sunday, June 7th, 2009
We are launching Edmodo 3.0 on Friday July 31st
I just wanted to write a quick post letting you know that we are going to be launching Edmodo 3.0 on Friday July 31st. We will have some site outages during the day while we take Edmodo offline and do the upgrade. I would not make plans to use Edmodo for any course work on [...]
General - Posted on Saturday, July 25th, 2009
We launched Edmodo 3.0 this evening. It’s been a long day and we are tired from working all day. I will do a more in depth post tomorrow. Just wanted to thank everyone that has reported bugs and joined us in the live u-stream this evening. We had a great time.
General - Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2009
Notable Edmodo 3.0 features Realtime updates – Edmodo time-line auto-refreshes Threaded replies, replies are now underneath each post instead of sent to the top of the timeline and treated like a new post. New caching system – Speed when clicking items is now super fast Archive feature – ability for teachers to archive their groups [...]
Features - Posted on Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
I’ve been asked quite a few times if we had any t-shirts which I regrettably had to say no. Today that has changed. I decided to create an Edmodo Cafe Press Store so Edmodo supporters can now purchase some Edmodo gear. We have a bunch of different style t-shirts and coffee mugs. You can get [...]
General - Posted on Monday, August 3rd, 2009
One teachers Edmodo experience with a student
Edmodo has been an integrated part of my students’ school life for a number of weeks now. My class is a relatively small grade five group of 10 boys and 9 girls. We are part of a rural school in Queensland Australia with just over 230 students spanning grades 1-7. The school is wonderfully equipped [...]
General - Posted on Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Small Interface Change… Big Improvement
We’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how to find an assignment and we kept having to repeat the same thing over and over on how to filter your streams by post type. There was a drop down menu above your stream that you had to click to expose your filtering options. We [...]
General - Posted on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
KSS Summit Edmodo Presentation
We found this Edmodo presentation online that was created by Howard Chan from Kipp Adelante Prepatory Academy for their annual summit in Orlando, Fl in August. (hope they invite us to come next year, I could use a vacation with Mickey Mouse He makes several points about his thoughts on Edmodo, which we would [...]
General - Posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Edmodo Polls: You can now post polls to your Edmodo groups
We just launched Edmodo Polls for teachers. Edmodo Polls is a simple system that allows you to post polls to your Edmodo groups to get quick anonymous feedback from your students effortlessly. Lets do a quick overview of how easy it is to add a poll. First click the “more” link in the Edmodo post [...]
Features • General • How-to - Posted on Monday, September 28th, 2009
The number one feature request we have received for Edmodo is an iPhone/iPod touch or mobile web app. This is something that has been on our agenda since we launched Edmodo. Tonight we would like to give everyone an early holiday present and announce the beta of the Edmodo Mobile Web Application at http://m.edmodo.com. [...]
General - Posted on Friday, November 27th, 2009
We just added a recent replies filter on Edmodo in the right sidebar. This filter will sort your posts with the most recent replies even after they have been cleared out of the spotlight area. This will make it easier for you to see questions or comments that need your immediate attention. It’s a pretty [...]
Features - Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009
