Setup your Classes in Schoology Now for Next Year

Setup your Classes in Schoology Now for Next Year

This Week’s Topic in Focus: Transitioning Schoology Courses

I know that most of you are super excited to start thinking about next year already! You have hopes! You have dreams! You have BIG PLANS! And now, you can begin creating your Schoology course for the next school year RIGHT NOW! Oh, happy day!

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Creating Your New Course

The required fields for creating a new course are

• course name (remember to title this according to the FHSD Schoology Common Agreements),section name (automatically defaults to section 1 if you do not edit)
• subject area
• grade level
• grading period

In order to select the proper grading period you will need to scroll down to the bottom of the list and select from the following options:

High School / Middle School

• HS/MS 2017-18 SY -  If your course is year long select this box
• Quarter 1
• Quarter 2 - Select Q1 and Q2 for Semester 1 courses
• Quarter 3
• Quarter 4 -  Select Q3 and Q4 for Semester 2 courses

Elementary

• ELEM 2017-18 SY - If your course is year long select this box
• Trimester 1
• Trimester 2
• Trimester 3

Additional Grading Period Info:

• You might notice that some grading periods are gray while others are black. You can still build a course within a grayed out period, but students can only access those grading periods that are in black because they are within the current date range. Gray grading periods will become black once they catch up to the current calendar date.
• “Summer Lead In” - This is a new option for those teachers who want to work with their next school year’s students during the summer months. This feature has been requested by several AP teachers who would like to assign work prior to our September 5th start but it is not limited to just them.

If you want to use some or all of the material from your current course in next year’s course, remember these following steps:

1. Create new course with correct grading periods.
2. Copy materials from 16-17 course to your new course.
1. Move all material by copying to “Resources” and then adding to your new course from your resource page.
2. Copy individual items or folders directly from the 16-17 course to your newly created course .

In both scenarios only materials are copied over; not due dates, students or student submissions.

*If you need assistance please see your DLS or view our previous blog post titled: Saving Course Materials to Resources and Using Archived Courses.

3. Unpublish any materials that you do not yet want the students to have access to.

Would you like to explore features in Schoology in preparation for next year?   See your DLS to kickstart a conversation - Cheryl, Melanie or Kyle.

Contributed by Cheryl Kemper @CherylLKemper @ Kyle Mack @ProfKyleMack   Melanie Zolnier @libary_techer