Edmodo document viewer now online
UPDATE: Edmodo document viewer is back online.
We just activated a new feature on Edmodo called the doc viewer. The Edmodo doc viewer allows you to view certain document formats inside your browser, without having to download the file and open the document in an external application. The following formats are currently supported:
- doc – Microsoft Word 97, 2000, 2003, XP
- docx – Microsoft Word 2007, 2008
- pdf – Adobe Portable Document Format
- odt – OpenOffice Open Document Text File
- rtf – Rich Text Format
We will be adding support for more file formats in the future such as xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, and txt. The doc viewer is built in flash and is not available on the mobile version of Edmodo.
Here is a quick rundown on how the document viewer works. After sending a file or assignment post, “Generating View…” will appear next to the links for any attached files. While the view is being generated, you and your students will still be able to download the original document. Once your document is ready to be viewed, a “View” link will appear. Click the view link to load the doc viewer right within your browser. The doc viewer has the ability to download the original file, print, view fullscreen, and even zoom on text in the document.
Update: Given the high popularity of the doc viewer, we are working on speeding up the conversion process. Thank you for your patience.
Recent replies filter added
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 small feature but it will make seeing replies a lot easier.
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 bubble. Next, select Poll and the post should look like the following screen shot. You type your question, and at least 2 answers. If you need more answers, just click the “add answers” button.
This is what a poll will look like to your student. Each student can only vote once and they can not retract their vote.
Once you start getting some responses from your students you can quickly gauge student sentiment regarding the question you posted.
Clicking the update link will refresh the polls stats for you.
What do you think of Edmodo Polls? We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
Now what are you waiting for, login to Edmodo and try out the poll feature 
Edmodo 3.0 Feature Highlights
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 forever.
- Inline editing of posts and replies -we don’t send you to a separate page to edit your posts and replies now.
- Spotlight feature – when someone replies to one of your posts, when you post an assignment or when a student turns in an assignment they get highlighted in the spotlight area. This should be the first thing you check when you login to Edmodo from now on.
- See all posts by user by clicking their picture or name.
Items currently disabled in Edmodo 3.0
- Notifications are currently disabled - Update: turned back on Aug 2nd at 2:04pm CST time
- Importing of RSS feeds – Currently Disabled
- Group Deletion – we have to rewrite the group deletion codes. as things are much more complex due to our cacheing system. No time-frame yet on when this will be back.
Make sure you check out The Edmodo Documentation Wiki for detailed instructions of Edmodo features.
Introducing Edmodo 2.0
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 locker tag soon.
- Wider Time-line to support a wider range of embeddable content
- Grades tab
- View a list of all grades received for a given group
- New Default Avatar set
- Notificiations
- via twitter (user must follow @edmodonotify)
- via text message, users select cell phone provider and enter phone number
- Viewing of the following file formats within Edmodo using Scribd’s iPaper technology
- Microsoft Word Files doc, docx
- Microsoft Powerpoint Files ppt, pptx, pps
- Microsoft Excel Files xls, xlsx
- PDF: PDF pdf, ps
- Open Office: Open Office Documents odt, odp, sxw, sxi, etc.
- Plain Text: Text Documents txt, rtf
- Ability to add RSS feeds to a group
- Inline viewing of youtube, google video, flickr, slideshare, wikipedia, if posted as a link
- Ability for a teacher to return a file when assigning a grade to an assignment
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 all your group members have signed up or if the code should happen to be leaked to people that shouldn’t have access to your group.
To reset a group invite code, just go to the pencil icon next to the group.
Next, select “Code & Info”.
Now, click the “Reset Code” link.
You will see that your code has now been changed and you can now exit using the “X” in the upper right hand corner of the box.
If anyone has anymore questions about this feature, do not hesitate to contact us by either leaving a comment on this post, using our contact form, or posting to the Edmodo group.
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” timeline, then the search will occur across all of your groups and direct messages. The search is pretty simple, it will either match an exact phrase, exact word, or even part of a word within your posts. When your done searching, click the “Clear Search” link.
The search box after a search has been done. Note the “clear search” link.
Feel free to leave any questions you have about this feature in the comments.
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.
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 turn-in the assignment in the assignment post.
When the student has completed their assignment according to the teachers instructions, they are ready to “turn-in” their assignment by clicking on the Turn-In link.
Once the Student turns in their assignment the post will then be marked as “waiting” for their teacher to grade the assignment.
Once students turn in assignments, the teacher will be notified.
Now the assignment is ready to grade. We currently only have 1 student in this demo class, but all your students would show up in the following screenshot for your classes.
Time to review & grade!!!
Once you’ve graded the assignment your students will be notified of their grade in Edmodo.
Please let us know what you think of the Assignment Turn-In & Grading System. We are striving to make Edmodo as best we can and make it a first class learning platform.
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