schoology. can we manage?

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Can we manage?

Teaching and Learning Colloquium 2014by

Salina Mohmad & Yew Foong Ching

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CONTENT

• Introduction

• SOE 2014 Schoology implementation

plan

• User’s feedback (phase 1 of

implementation)

• Conclusion

• Future plan for 2015

Why we need e-learning?

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With the advancement of Information Technology in Malaysia and throughout the world, learning

institution should take the advantage to upgrade their teaching and learning environment.

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Students should be allowed to learn anytime,

anywhere and at their own pace.

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Lecturer should be able to share all teaching related materials online and keep a collection

of test/tutorial questions online.

Lecturers can also go a step further by doing online discussion or forum for more

interactive online activities with student.

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Educators from different schools or

department should also be able to share

resources and exchange ideas through the

internet.

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Of course, one of the platform available and adopted

by our university college is through

SoE 2014 Implementation Plan

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 Activity May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec1 Commencement of Schoology Phase 1

Project Owner: All Diploma Lectures

2 Schoology Phase 1 ImplementationProject Owner: All Diploma Lectures

3 Progress Checkpoint 1*Process Tracker: Ms Salina, Ms Yew

4 Progress Checkpoint 2*Process Tracker: Ms Salina, Ms Yew

5 Final Checkpoint*Process Tracker: Ms Salina, Ms Yew

6 Schoology Phase 2 ImplementationProject Owner: All Degree Lectures

7 Progress Checkpoint 1*Process Tracker: Ms Salina, Ms Yew

8 Progress Checkpoint 2*Process Tracker: Ms Salina, Ms Yew

9 Final Checkpoint*Process Tracker: Ms Salina, Ms Yew

10 Review and feedback session

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No. Item Date/Time Action Progress

Status

1 Schoology Training 1: Introductory Session Feb 2014 All SOE Staff

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February 2014

2 Schoology Training 2: Enterprise Session April/May 2014

All SOE Staff

16 April 2014

3 Phase 1: Implementation of Schoology into Diploma Programmes Upload subject/course information and

teaching plan Upload teaching materials Upload continuous assessment materials Setup forum/discussion room/ bulletin

board/etc. Other online educational activities  

May 2014All

Diploma Lectures

Done. Monitoring: 17th June – 20th June

2014

4 Phase 2: Implementation of Schoology into Degree Programmes Upload subject/course information and

teaching plan Upload teaching materials Upload continuous assessment materials Setup forum/discussion room/ bulletin

board/etc. Other online educational activities

Aug 2014All

Degree Lecturers

In progress 

5 Review and Feedback Session  Dec 2014 All SOE

Staff 

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OUTCOME

• Schoology Training 1:

Staff were introduced to Schoolgy and learn how to

upload teaching materials, prepare online quizzes, add

student to a course, do discussion online, etc.

Attendance was made compulsory, thus all academic

staff joined the training.

All lecturer start to use Schoology and with the training

provided, we were able to resolve minor problems

regarding the usage of Schoology.

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OUTCOME

• Schoology Training 2:

Staff were introduced to the Enterprise version

of Schoolgy and additional feature that comes

with it.

They learnt how to merge Schoology account

Lecturers’ manage to merge their free account

with the enterprise account, even few of them

decided not to merge.

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OUTCOME

• Phase 1:

More emphasis on Diploma programme but other

programmes were encourage to use Schoology as

well and the response is good.

After monitoring, 2 subjects were not really

updated mainly because the number of student in

the class is very few (1 or 2 student) easier for

lecturer to gave out teaching material directly.

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OUTCOME

• Phase 1:

Guidelines for student on how to use the

Schoology were put up on the notice boards

around the Engineering Lab.

Contact information on respective staff they

can contact regarding Schoology was also

made available in case student faced with

problems while using Schoology.

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OUTCOME

• Phase 2:

Implementation now are focused more on the

Degree subject.

No tracking had been made yet – plan to

carry out middle of the month after all

lecturers finish preparing their exam paper.

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OUTCOME

• Phase 2:

Our school administrator had made full use

of Schoology by making all UC and school

announcements available on the Schoology

through our own channel – SOE channel.

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OUTCOME

• Phase 2:

Another initiative was taken by the Degree PL

in order to ‘force’ the student to use

Schoology by asking them to do self-

assessment on each of the subject they take,

at the beginning of the semester.

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User’s feedback(Phase 1 implementation)

For the 1st phase of implementation according to SoE

plan, one short survey was conducted among staff

and student in the school.

The objective of the survey is to find out what are the

users’ impression and acceptance on

Schoology for the first time as the platform of

interactive learning in the school.

We manage to get 53 responses (with no incomplete

answer) from the school to answer a 5 questions

survey and the results are as follows. 22

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Question 1:In your opinion, how important is it to have an e-learning platform such as Schoology in tertiary education level to

promote interactive learning environment?

Extremely im-portant

Important It does not matter

Not important Not important at all

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80 % of the response accepted 

the idea

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Question 2:Approximately, how frequent do you log-in to Schoology?

Everyday Few times a week

Once a week Once a month Never 0

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87 % of the response utilize the platform

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Question 3:From which platforms would you likely to access the

Schoology website?

Mobile phones / Tablet

Personal computer / Laptop

Computer in the Lab Cyber Cafes0

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98 % of the response show that it is convenient to login to 

Schoology, anytime and anywhere 

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Question 4:How do you find the usability and the ease of navigation

of the Schoology website?

Very easy to nav-igate through/

No trouble

Easy Moderate Difficult Very difficult / Not user friendly

at all

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47% find it is easy to navigate.42% find it moderate.

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Question 5:Do you think Schoology is useful in helping the student to learn independently outside the learning hour they have

in college?

Not useful at all Slightly useful Indifferent Mostly useful Very useful0

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34% of user think that Schoology did not affect their learning experience 

outside the class.

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Conclusion

• Schoology is indeed an important e-learning platform for interactive learning experience.

• SOE is progressing well in embracing Schoology according to the plan laid for 2014.

• 80% of users accepted Schoology as the e-learning platform in SOE – good response.

Future Plan for 2015

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Future Plan for 2015, Q1

• Workshop for SOE student to enhance the usage of Schoology.

• Start with January 2015 intake – Introduce Schoology as an e-learning platform to new student during their orientation day.

• Promote Schoology as an instrumental platform in teaching and leaning experience as a whole and not only for downloading lecture notes.

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Future Plan for 2015, Q1

• User’s feedback (phase 2 )

• Conduct a technical survey to have a more precise measurement on users’ satisfaction on Schoology features and usage.

• Measurement on the effectiveness of Schoology in teaching and learning experience will also be conducted.

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Future Plan for 2015, Q2

• Bi-directional learning platform

• Implement a 2 way experience platform between student and lecturer – online discussion, feedback and comments

• Enhance flexible teaching and learning experience

• Alternative method in learning besides the traditional way of teaching with books and whiteboard

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Future Plan for 2015, Q2

• Study on ways to implement online teaching and learning on specific subject such as Mathematics.

• Mathematics is always a subject that lecturer find hard to teaching online since a lot of formulas and numbers are involved.

• Student find submission online for mathematics is also difficult especially when they have to solve long mathematical equation using software.

• Plan – study what other universities did and find computer programs that can help with the mathematical equation

End of Presentation