Week 6 - Assignment 2-2 Edmodo

Edmodo is a secure educational learning network educators can use in their classroom to enhance their ELA instruction and help develop student’s literacies skills. It enables educators to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents. Students get to present their work, access homework and safely connect and work with their pairs and teacher from anywhere and at any time. Edmodo offers an abundance of features that will capture students’ attention and will facilitate learning in the classroom.

Using Edmodo, educators can upload assignments in an orderly manner and ensure that students don’t anymore lose worksheets, forget when assignments were due and what the requirements were. By simply clicking on the assignment tab teachers can upload assignments, add a description and set a due date for each assignment posted. Assessments are also made easy using Edmodo. The poll feature can be used as a pre-learning assessment to learn what students know regarding a topic and the quiz option can be used as a pre-learning activity to spark the learner’s interest and to assess students after a learning activity. The messaging tab allows students to collaborate with pairs to support their inquiry of topics assigned. Students can also use the messaging function to interact with their teacher, get feedback and ask questions whenever needed. The planner is another great feature which helps educators organize their school work. Using the planner one can easily keep track of events and tasks.