2. Sandi Dennis
Presented By:
Heather
Borowski:
Director of Instructional
Media and
Sandi Dennis:
Library Media and
Instructional Technology
Specialist

3. The 4/5 Academy at Fifth
Avenue

5. What is a Learning Management
System?
What is Edmodo?
Edmodo is a free Learning
Management System available online.
Edmodo's mission is to connect all
learners with the people and resources
they need to reach their full potential.

6. Edmodo is the
largest social
learning network in
the world
20,000,000+
TOTAL USERS AROUND THE WORLD

7. Why Edmodo?
Engage
Connect
Personalize
Measure
Edmodo is designed to get
students excited about
learning as teachers easily
create a blended learning
experience.
Edmodo offers engaging,
easy-to-use apps that integrate
seamlessly and personalize
learning for every student.
Teachers are at the center of a
powerful network that
connects them to students,
parents, administrators and
publishers.
Edmodo makes it simple to
track student progress.
Teachers can get the pulse of
the class through quizzes,
discussion and more.
Our teachers use Edmodo
in many different ways...

8. Systemwide Technology Committee Charge: Research and
Recommend a Learning Management System for City Schools
of Decatur
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Edmodo
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My Big Campus
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9. Questions to consider:
1. Tools for teacher/student communication
(email? chat?)
2. Class/lecture capture
3. Video capture and storage
4.Resource Center- Including Document
Storage
5. Collaboration Tools
6. Planning Tools for Teachers and/or
Students

10. To consider…
8. Blog
9. Wiki
10. Social Media/Social Learning
11. User interface/Userability
12. Cost/Structure- district? per user?
13. iDevice-Friendly? Mobile App?
14. Professional Learning options

11. Edmodo= Secure Platform which
Ensures Safety and Privacy
• Closed environment
• No private information
required from students
• Students can only join classes
by the invitation of their
teacher
• All communication is archived
• Teacher has full management
control
• Mobile app available
Students use
this code to
sign up

12. How can my student use Edmodo?
Learn with Edmodo
Group Learning
Classroom to Classroom
Submit Work in all
curriculum areas
Book or other Clubs
Sharing, Inquiring, Reflecting
Suggestion Box
Feedback
Rewards
(Badges)
Sharing Resources and
Junior Media Specialists
Instructional Materials
Summer Reading

13. Teachers Monitor Safe Social
Learning
• Do not post group codes publicly
• Lock group codes after all members
have joined
• Monitor posts / Set up notifications
• Use read-only status when useful
• Encourage students to select unique
passwords
• Set expectations

14. F.AVE Edmodo Acceptable Use
Agreement
Our students sign this
and each teacher
posts a copy in

15. Student

16. Student Profile
red circle
indicates "new"
items
Badges awarded
by teachers
Link to grade
book for each
group
Students share their
learning style and
goals

17. Student Homepage
The backpack:
Unlimited storage
for documents,
videos and other
resources
Students receive
Students receive
notifications for
notifications for
grades, assignments,
grades, assignments,
alerts or replies
alerts or replies
Students can only send
Students can only send
messages to the entire
messages to the entire
group or directly to
group or directly to
the teacher
the teacher
Students can
only join
groups. They
cannot create
groups
Parents use this code to create
Parents use this code to create
their account or add student to
their account or add student to
their existing account
their existing account

18. Optional Parent
Interface

19. Parent Sign-Up
To create an account, go to
edmodo.com (on a computer) and use
the parent code located on your child’s
Edmodo homepage

20. Parent Homepage
Parents can add multiple students
Parents can add multiple students
with their unique parent codes
with their unique parent codes
assignment due
Teachers can send
messages to parents.
Parents are "Read-Only"
to monitor their
student's progress.
late assignment
new grade
upcoming event
assignment comment
Parents have a dashboard view of
student’s assignments, grades and
calendar events. Greyed-out icons
mean nothing is ready to be
viewed.

21. Parent Notifications

22. Badges
Teachers can award badges to
motivate and recognize students!

23. Get Started with this To-Do
List
• Get your parent code
• Create your Parent account
• Connect to all of your students who
use Edmodo
• Check student progress on a
desktop or laptop
• Explore the mobile device alerts
you can receive – text or email

24. Need Help? / FAQs
Sandi Dennis sdennis@csdecatur.net

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