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Holiday Checklist Day 4: Edmodo Mini-Lessons
Now that your students are signed up, day 4 of our holiday checklist is all about engaging your students in Edmodo. As you’re wrapping up for the holidays, consider using one of these simple Edmodo mini-lessons to help students reflect on what they’ve learned and prepare for the year ahead. Best and Worst of 2011 [...]
General • How-to • Integration Ideas
Holiday Checklist Day 3: Getting Students Signed Up
Day 3 of our 2012 holiday checklist walks you through how to get your students signed up for Edmodo. Once you’ve organized your groups and resources, follow these steps to get your students on Edmodo: Introduce students to Edmodo by showing them the Edmodo at a Glance video. Help students understand how they can sign [...]
Holiday Checklist Day 2: Organizing Groups and Resources
Day two of our 2012 holiday checklist is all about organizing your new groups and resources. Follow these easy steps to get started: Once you’ve acquainted yourself with Edmodo, you’ll want to get all your groups created. How you decide to name and organize your groups is up to you. Many teachers choose to do [...]
Holiday Checklist: Get Ready for 2012 with Edmodo
As many of you prepare for a holiday break, we want to provide you with helpful ways to get organized and prepared for the New Year. Each day this week we’ll be doing a new blog post that outlines tips on how you can plan for your Edmodo rollout in 2012. Today we begin day [...]
How to Annotate Assignments in Edmodo
Last week we released a new annotation feature that allows teachers to make comments and edits on student assignments. We received a number of questions about how this new feature works, so we’ve created this how-to video to help.
3 Tips for Easy Content Sharing
Over the past couple months, Edmodo has added some features that make it even easier for you to view and share your favorite content. Play View: Don’t have time to download all of the resources in a folder and just want a quick overview of the content? Use Play View to quickly scan the folder’s [...]
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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 [...]
4 Ways to Use Edmodo for Mobile Learning
Did you know that Edmodo is accessible from any mobile device with Internet capabilities? We also have free apps for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices! If your student’s have access to a mobile device, here are a few ideas for how you can integrate Edmodo into your mobile learning initiatives: 1. Bring Edmodo [...]
Edmodo Back to School: 9 Tips For Online Safety
As you prepare for the new school year, follow these best practices to ensure safe and secure usage of Edmodo in your classroom, school and district. 1. Set up a school or district subdomain Having a subdomain allows all communication within your school or district to be viewed by administrators, providing full disclosure for teachers [...]
Best Practices • General • How-to
Back to School with Edmodo: 5 Steps to Getting Started
Looking to integrate Edmodo into your classroom curriculum this year? Here are 5 steps to help you get started: 1. Sign up If you don’t already have an Edmodo account, visit Edmodo.com and sign up. Registration is free and takes less than a minute! 2. Adjust your settings and notifications Once you’ve created your account, visit [...]
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Parent Accounts: A Quick Refresher
Parent accounts are a great way to keep your students’ parents informed of classroom activities, assignments, grades and school events. The registration process for parents is similar to student registration, with one additional security measure – each parent will need their own unique parent code to register. This is to ensure that parents can only [...]
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 [...]
Communities • Features • General • How-to
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 [...]
Ideas for Using Edmodo: Add yours!
The blogis on a brief summer break this week…just popping in with a quick post:) ** Have you seen this Google Doc that Shannon Miller started a couple of weeks ago? It’s a great source of inspiration for those of you who may be getting started using Edmodo, so we thought it was worth sharing again. [...]
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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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DIY with Bianca!! ** At my school I am the go-to person for edmodo. That’s cool, because I love edmodo – after all, I introduced it to our school over two years ago and I’m the one who spends most of her time raving about how great using edmodo is! Yesterday a Food Technology teacher [...]
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Want to share a bunch of documents and resources quickly? Use an Edmodo group code.
One of the easiest ways to share all of the documents and resources with a group, big or small, is to use the library in Edmodo. Instead of passing around a usb drive, sharing a folder on your school server, or typing in each email address in Google Docs to share the resources that your [...]
Power search in your Edmodo Library
So you have a huge amount of files, links, videos, and resources collected in your Edmodo library. You have been collecting them from your class groups and from your connections. You have created folders and shared them with your students and your colleagues. You have even shared some of your amazing resources in the Edmodo content [...]
More Inspiration: 7 brand new ideas from teachers
We admit, this is starting to get a little crazy — every time we ask for ways you use Edmodo in the classroom, we receive new and fresh ideas — seems like you never run out of new ways to use it! Here are a few more creative ideas from some of our educators: Pen [...]
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I love finding examples of teachers “who get it”. The teachers who, when you learn that your child is going to be in their class next year, cause you to breathe an audible sigh of relief – because you know the year will be filled with breathless stories of new projects, great adventures, and [...]
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 [...]
Have you scheduled an Edmodo Meetup yet?
Edmodo meetups are informal gatherings organized by users, for users. They are a great way to meet fellow Edmodo educators in real life, exchange ideas, ask questions, give answers, or simply meet other educators working with Edmodo in your local area. To participate, simply create an Edmodo Meetup in your area & invite your friends [...]
Great resources for Spanish Speaking Edmodo Users
Aproximately 25% of all posts in Edmodo that are made public are written in Spanish. These posts are from around the world and right next door. The users making these posts are supporting their students and schools with videos on how to sign up for Edmodo, documents to send home to parents, and even a [...]
Get the most out of Edmodo: Publish great work for the world to see!
So much of what goes on in the classroom is lost in the changing of classes or planning for tomorrow’s lesson. The great conversations or outstanding student work disappears as soon as those students walk out the door. When parents ask about what happened at school, they rarely get the fullness of engagement or achievement that is [...]
A Teacher’s Perspective: Real world connections using Edmodo (video)
Everywhere students go they are connected to technology — instead of expecting students to ‘power down’ when they come to school, forward-thinking school districts are finding new ways to ‘power up’ the curriculum. In this video, Dyane Smokorowski explains how educators throughout Andover school district in Kansas are using Edmodo to engage students in academic [...]
Edmodo Tip: Ask Questions of your Teacher Connections
One of the best reasons for creating a social network of teachers is to share resources and bounce ideas off of one another. By connecting with teachers on Edmodo, you can create just the kind of network you would like whether that is based upon a common subject area, geography or a shared interest in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
