1. edmodo
A social learning network
Faye Berlage
Sayre Language Academy
TechTalk – January 27, 2012 2:15pm – 3:00pm
Twitter: #cpstt

2. Do your students use these?

3. If so, then edmodo will …
• Engage your students by looking
familiar
• Enable you to improve
communication with your students
• Allow you to reduce the amount of
paper you use in the classroom

4. What is edmodo?
• Free social learning network for
teachers, students, schools, and districts
• Provides a safe and easy way to:
▫ Connect
▫ Exchange ideas
▫ Share content
▫ Access homework, grades, and school notices

5. No worries about security
• Use cps.edmodo.com instead of www.edmodo.com
• Closed environment
• No private info required from students
• Students join by invitation from teacher only
• Teacher has full management control
• Students cannot directly message each other
• All messages and communications are archived

6. How to begin?

7. Teacher View Post
Grade
work
Store content
reuse & sharing
assignments, note
s, quizzes, and
polls
Create
groups

8. First Step – Create a group
• Organize by: content
areas, homerooms, gra
de levels
• Receive a Group Code
• Give code to your
students when they are
creating their student
accounts

9. Student View
Receive
Can only post to notification of
teacher or whole grades, alerts, and
class comments
Can only join
groups – cannot
create them
Parent code to
create parent
account

10. Management
Teacher and
student profiles
– profile image,
learning style,
etc.
Create groups
for
classes, subjects
, clubs, and
small groups

11. Management Notifications -
see new activity,
assignments
turned in, &
comments
Keep group secure
– lock it once all
students have
joined
Manage students
– remove, set to
read only, reset
password
Award badges

12. Organizing your groups
• One group for each classroom
• After school class group
• Groups for PD and collaboration
with other teachers

13. Best Practices in Safety
• Once all students have joined your group, lock
the group code
• Teach online etiquette
• Have students agree to a list of rules and policies
up front
• Edit or delete posts that are inappropriate
• Set students to “Read-Only” status as needed
▫ Read-Only students can turn-in assignments and
post messages to teacher but not group

14. Edmodo in the classroom
• Polls
• Using the edmodo wall
▫ Classroom discussion questions
▫ Writing prompts
• Assignments
▫ Assignment descriptions, due date, relevant links and
documents can be posted with the assignment
▫ Documents and projects can be uploaded and turned
in
▫ Video clips can be embedded and students can
respond to a posted question about the video

15. Grades Calculates average
grade
Export grades to
CSV file

16. Communication & Grading
Student can
submit multiple
versions of
assignment
Teacher and
student can
communicate
about assignment

17. Quizzes

18. Add to gradebook
Assign due date
automatically

19. Create Badges for your students

20. Libraries
• When planning, save documents, links, and videos in a
folder to later attach to an assignment
• Organize information by content areas or classrooms
• My Folders or Shared with me

21. How I use it – tech ed
• Assignments
▫ Electronic copy of assignment directions
▫ Ability to turn in completed work
▫ No flash drive? “Turn in” work that isn’t finished
in order to save it and work on it later
Directions can be
attached to the
assignment

22. Some of my assignments
• Have students take a poll & make a graph in
Excel of results
• Embed flashcards from Quizlet of technology
terms
• Post link to free typing test website and have
students reply to post with their WPM (words
per minute)
• Have students make an avatar to be their profile
picture
• Embed glogs

23. Differentiation
• Can send different assignments to individual
students
• Can create a small group (sub-group) within a
class for students with special needs or
modification requirements

24. Some ideas from edmodo
Visit: help.edmodo.com/edmodo-mini-lessons

25. Language Arts
• Writing prompt on wall about last night’s reading
assignment
• Use edmodo as a replacement for in class journaling
• Video clip of movie posted to wall
▫ Students reply and compare/contrast movie scene
with same scene in the book
• Students can “turn in” (upload)
▫ Book report
▫ Writing response paper
▫ Power point presentations
▫ Really anything!

26. Social Studies – Living History Lessons
• Posting on wall
▫ Role playing
▫ Writing prompt
• Provide links to articles, video clips, about a topic. Students
have to:
▫ choose which side of the argument they want to support
▫ write at least one paragraph explaining why they chose their
position
▫ use information from the text/video provided and/or from
classroom discussions to support their statement
• Help students track current events
▫ Create a new group (where all students are read-only) called
News
▫ Subscribe group to RSS feed from local news provider (BBC
Newsround in the UK has child friendly news)
▫ That’s it! The students will see the news articles in their
timelines on a daily basis.

27. Science
• Embed a video of a science experiment
(schooltube) and students reply with hypothesis
• Project a video on the big screen and pause the
video at important points, giving the students a
chance to take notes in their Edmodo group
▫ After video, project up the Edmodo wall with the
notes and discuss
▫ Create an online quiz in Edmodo with the
class, having each student contribute a question
(and answer)
▫ Have students take the quiz.

28. Mathematics
• Puzzles and brain benders posted on
the wall and students reply with their
answers
• Embed digital interactives
▫ Play games directly in edmodo
• Post daily math notes after class

29. How to get more ideas …
• Follow different content area
communities
• Find connections through
your profile

30. Browse Communities
Click on your profile and Browse Communities on the right side bar

31. Edmodo Training and Support
• Join weekly Edmodo Webinars
▫ blog.edmodo.com/category/webinar
• Use Help Center to answer questions
▫ help.edmodo.com
• Visit the support community
▫ edmodo.com/community/support
• Get more ideas
▫ help.edmodo.com/ideas
▫ blog.edmodo.com
• Follow Edmodo updates
▫ Facebook (facebook.com/edmodo)
▫ Twitter (#edmodo)

32. Join the
20 Ways to Use Edmodo
Group
Group Code: 61ulgl

33. Questions?