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New Release: Parent Account Updates, Moderated Posts and French
Today we released a few updates to the site and a special badge for District Administrators associated with an Edmodo subdomain. Here’s a quick review of what’s new: Parent Account Updates Based on teacher feedback and analysis of parent accounts, we’ve made a few new updates to parent accounts, including: Improved navigation: We’ve given parent [...]
Edmodo iPhone Update with Mobile Gradebook Now Available
Last week we announced our new Android app update and today we are pleased to announce the new iPhone and iPad apps are available! The latest version of the app gives teachers full access to their gradebook, allowing them to view and grade assignments directly from their mobile device. For students, the new app provides the ability [...]
New Release: Mobile Gradebook, Assignment Annotation and More
We released a few new features just before many educators in the US took off for the Thanksgiving holiday. In case you missed it, following are some highlights of what’s new: Assignment Annotation via Crocodoc Teachers can now make comments and edits to student assignments. This is especially useful if you want to just add some [...]
New Release: Join Group URL, More Quiz Enhancements and Greek Language
We’ve just released a few new features that we think you’ll be excited about! Here’s a quick overview of what’s new: Join Group URL Now you can publicize your group and invite others to join, without giving away the group code. The new “request to join URL” is a unique, auto generated URL that you [...]
Enhancements: Quiz Updates and Resources, Printable Rosters, German language
Last weekend we released our new quiz feature. Throughout the week we’ve received tons of great feedback on what you love about quizzes and how we can enhance this new feature. Today we’re pleased to announce that based on the suggestions received, we’ve implemented the following updates to quizzes: Preview quiz: Before you assign a [...]
Latest Release: What’s New in Edmodo
So we snuck in a midnight release last night! Looks like many of you have already jumped in and started playing around with quizzes. Tomorrow morning we’ll post a more detailed entry specifically focused on Quizzes, but this afternoon we want to give you a quick review of the new features we rolled out last [...]
Since we announced the pending arrival of quizzes on Edmodo for this school year, we’ve received tons of feedback, messages and inquiries from the community. Over the past few weeks, this enthusiasm has generated significant discussion between Edmodo educators and our product development team on the features and functionality that are most important to you. [...]
New Release: Folder Play View, Shared Badges, Search Updates and More
Some of you may have noticed a handful of new features were released on Edmodo over the weekend. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new: Folder Play View If you haven’t visited your Edmodo Library lately, now there’s a great reason to. We’ve added a slick new Play View option that allows you to see [...]
In addition to the new student profile, badges and assignment features, Edmodo now includes some cool features of particular interest to subdomain holders and school and district administrators: Administrator Support Community: Subdomain admins now have access to their very own community where they will be able to share best practices for implementing Edmodo in a school [...]
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New Release: Student Profiles, Badges and Assignment Filtering
Last night’s system upgrade included a few new exciting features including: Student profiles: Get more insight into each of your students through new student profiles! Students profiles allow you to view that student’s teachers, groups, classmates and recent activity. This information is automatically generated based on their Edmodo activity, but the student can also share [...]
Add and Share Content With The Edmodo Bookmarklet
Up until now, you had to be within Edmodo to add something to your library. This meant that you had to copy and paste the URL to a great resource into the Edmodo post bubble, or directly into your library, to share it with your students or colleagues. Not anymore. If you want to add something [...]
New Release: Fresh New Look, New Gradebook, Library and Mobile App!
Homepage: We gave Edmodo a facelift! Streamlined graphics, fonts and layout provide more flexible and easier navigation. In addition, we’ve enhanced some of the features to make it easier for you to find what you need when you need it, including: New filtering options: Select your Everything stream, you can now filter by type [...]
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Tips for Managing Your Everything Stream
Edmodo users now have the ability to join 11 communities and 18 partner pages in topics ranging from World Languages to Professional Development. With the addition of new communities, many teachers are both joining and contributing to conversations that they weren’t previously. We have seen people from around the world sharing teaching resources and asking [...]
Download the Free App for iPhone and Android – Stay Connected on the Go
As we head into the next few weeks of mid-terms, educational conferences, and back to school for our friends in the southern hemisphere (*waves to Australia and New Zealand teachers*) — we thought it might be a good time to remind everyone to download the free Edmodo app for your iPhone or Android. The [...]
New Feature: Real time Community updates
One for the first, and most frequent, ways that educators are using Edmodo is to connect, network, and share ideas with other educators. To facilitate this activity, we’ve enhanced the site so that posts to the Communities you’ve joined now appear in the Everything stream. For most of you, this is a great way to [...]
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4 Ways to Stay Connected with Edmodo in 2011
Happy New Year! Welcome back – hopefully you are energized, refreshed and recharged after the holiday break. We are – and we’re looking forward a very busy and productive 2011. We have a number of new features in store, announcements to make, and a lot of interesting events and professional development opportunities on the [...]
By Popular Demand: ‘Delete Submitted Assignments’ is back
According to the feedback we’ve received via Edmodo messages, email, twitter and comments on the blog, the Assignment and Gradebook enhancements have been positively received. However, many educators have indicated that in addition to the new Resubmit feature you still want the ability to delete submitted assignments. Based on that feedback we are please to [...]
The Assignment and Grading Enhancements You Requested Are Here
Based on educator feedback, over the weekend we launched enhancements to our assignments and grading features that provide greater visibility, flexibility and efficiencies for both you and your students. New features include: ‘At a Glance” view from your Edmodo stream allows you to see immediately how many students have turned in an assignment. Assignment Overview [...]
Scheduled Upgrades: Sunday 9amPT
We’re making some upgrades to Edmodo on Sunday — enhancements that will provide greater visibility, efficiency and flexibility for Assignments and Grading. The whole process should take just a few minutes to make sure everything is moving smoothly and ready to go for school next week, but you may notice some slight changes to the [...]
By Popular Demand – New Calendar Features
Based on feedback from teachers, we’re pleased to announce new additions to the Edmodo Calendar. We can’t wait to hear what you think! Create multi-day events: Whether you need a reminder for Spirit Week or want to block off next year’s Spring Break, we’ve got you covered. You can now enter an event that spans [...]
Edmodo for the Android™ makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Use your Android phone to send notes, post replies, and check messages and upcoming events while away from the classroom. Edmodo for the Android makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Check [...]
We’re All in this together…join our new Communities
Teaching is a collaborative effort. Whether it’s partnering with parents to identify the best way to reach a child, the quiet hum of students working in small groups, or working on lesson plans in your weekly departmental meeting, I think we all agree that we are at our best when we work together. That’s why [...]
The Edmodo iPhone App is here! Edmodo for iPhone makes it easy for teachers and students to stay connected and share information. Use your iPhone or iPod Touch to send notes, post replies, and check messages and upcoming events while away from the classroom. Teachers can post last-minute alerts to their students and keep tabs [...]
We’ve launched teacher connections! Now you can connect with other teachers to discover resources and share best practices. Here’s a quick guide to help you explore our new features. Teacher Profiles Your profile page builds upon the user page already available in the current Edmodo. We’ve added activity streams and the ability to quickly navigate [...]
Files are back! Not only files, but links, embeds, and all of the other items that you include in your message posts are now stored in your own personal library. The Library Our new, intelligent Library automatically saves any link, embed, or file that you have ever sent or received. In the Library, you can [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
