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A Guide to Getting Started
BCPS – Office of Instructional Technology
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Free social learning network for teachers, students, schools and districts
Safe and easy way to connect• Exchange ideas
• Share content
• Access homework, grades and school notices.
District and school subdomains give flexible suite of tools • Monitor usage
• Manage users
• Communicate across district
What is Edmodo?
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Closed environment
No private information required from students
Students join classes by the invitation of their teacher only
All communications are archived
Teacher has full management control
Sub domains allow district administrators greater control
Secure Platform Ensures Student Safety and Privacy
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PROTOCOLS FOR THE USE OF ONLINE COLLABORATION TOOLS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
https://intranet.bcps.org/offices/oit/online.htm
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Create Your Account – You will need your school code!
http://bcps.edmodo.com/
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Switch to latest version of Edmodo
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Teacher Landing Page
Store unlimited content for easy re-
use and sharing
Create Groups for Classes and
Clubs
Encourage collaboration and
participation in classroom discussions
Post assignments, reminders, polls, or
discussion questions
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Student View Unlimited storage for documents,
videos and other resources
Students can only join groups,
they cannot create them
Students receive notifications for new grades, new assignments,
alerts or replies
Students can only send messages to the entire group or directly to the
teacher
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Edmodo in the Classroom
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Update Your Account Settings
Upload a photo or select an icon from
our list
Select your school and
connect with your peers
Customize email or text notification
Choose your privacy settings
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Create a Group
2. Complete group info
3. Distribute code to group members
1. Select Create on groups menu
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Student Sign-Up
Student must have group code to register
Students are NOT required to
give email address
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Manage Groups
View grades, reset passwords and set students to “read only”
Create sub-groups within your groups
Sub-groups will appear as nested under the “main” group
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Parent Sign-up
Parent must have parent code to
register.
Parents can retrieve parent codes from their child’s Edmodo account.
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Parent View
Parents have a dashboard view of all of their child’s assignments, grades
and calendar notices
Teachers can send parents messages.
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Post a Message
Send a message to a group, or post direct messages to
specific students or teacher connections
Select to post a note, alert, assignment or
poll
Embed videos, attach files, links or any documents from
your Edmodo Library collection
Post message immediately or send out at a
scheduled time.
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Edmodo Library Upload, store and edit content to your personal library
Organize library into folders and share
files and folders with groups
Unlimited Storage, accessible anywhere!
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Create an Assignment
View and grade assignments as students turn
them in
Click “Load Assignment” to easily pull up a
previously given assignment
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Grading Assignments
Comments allow you to provide feedback on assignments and students are notified immediately. Students can also comment back and a permanent record is kept for
reference.
Students can attach documents, links or
embed video. Teachers can annotate
assignments.
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Create a Quiz
Select to create a new quiz or load a previously
created one
Add a quiz title, instructions, time limit and choose
whether you’d like to allow students
to view results immediately.
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Add Quiz Questions
Choose from multiple choice, true/false, fill in
the blank or short answer questions
Add multiple responses and set
correct anwers
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Grading Quizzes
Select individual students to view their responses, and grade
short answer questions
View number of correct responses by
question
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Gradebook Export option allows you to
transfer grades to another program
Scores are updated automatically after each assignment is
graded and recorded
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Planner
Filter by group or view all
Add class events, school events or view scheduled
assignments
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Get updates and notifications on the go with our mobile app.
• Available for iOS and Android devices.
Access Edmodo on any mobile browser at m.edmodo.com
Mobile Access
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Best Practices for Safe Social Networking
Encourage students to create their own accounts to ensure password safetyAfter all students join your group, lock the group code to prevent others from joiningMonitor group membership to ensure only students in your group have joinedEducate students on proper online etiquetteUse “Read-Only” status to curb inappropriate behaviorAlways log in though your subdomainUse BCPS AD username and external password
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