schoology. can we manage?
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Schoology. Can We Manage?TRANSCRIPT
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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
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