Edmodo

Edmodo Features

Small Groups:  is a great way to create classroom activities.  It's also a great way to organize differentiated classroom activities.  It allows you to create small groups within your larger group and assign the students a variety of different activities. 

Library:  The library feature allows you to create folders and upload pictures, links, video, worksheets and activities that you can share with your group.  It's a great way to organize resources for a particular lesson.  

Quizzes:  The quiz feature is great because it allows the students to use any device to access the quiz.  They can be in charge of their own learning.  As well the quiz feature allows to give instant feedback and create comments.  The quiz feature also gives you pie charts that gives the question breakdown.  This is a great because it allows you to see what skill you may need to review. 

Progress Report:  is just like having a digital gradebook, it allows you to track your students and their  badges.

Polls:  is a awesome feature.  It is a great and quick way to take a survey and gain students responses to a certain topic in addition students can only vote once and cannot change their  answers. 

    Edmodo can be a valuable tool in the ELA classroom.  ELA teachers have the opportunity to create a their own library of resources for the unit they are working on.  The library is always available and as long as the students have access to Edmodo they will always have access to the resources.   The quiz feature in Edmodo is also very valuable to the ELA classroom because the pie chart feature allows teachers to gauge whether or not the students understood a certain skill or if it needs to be reviewed again.  Edmodo offers a variety of features that can fit any classroom no matter what subject you teach. All the teachers have to do is cater the Edmodo program to fit their class and their needs.