A great FREE resource to add more technology.

Edmodo provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate, share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner.

Edmodo promotes anytime, anyplace learning. Functionally, it allows teachers to post messages, discuss classroom topics, assign and grade class work, share content and materials, and network and exchange ideas with their peers - but in reality, it is so much more. Take a peek at some of the unique ways teachers are using Edmodo to make their classroom a community.

In late 2008, Nic Borg and Jeff O'Hara, believing we need to evolve our school environment to reflect the connected world in which we live, set out to create a tool that closes the gap between how students live their lives and how they learn in school.

Parent accounts are a great way for parents to observe and stay up to date with their child’s Edmodo activities. With more and more parents signing up for Edmodo, we wanted to provide additional information and tips on how to get started, as well as our most frequently asked questions from parents.

5 Tips to Help Parents Get Started:

1.                    Parents should create a parent account,  not a student or teacher account.

2.                    In order to create an account, parents will need their unique parent code. This is not the same as a group code, which is what students use to create an account. (See the below FAQ for information on where to retrieve the parent code)

3.                    Parents only need one parent code, regardless of whether their student has multiple teachers using Edmodo. Once their parent account is created, they will be able to see all of their student’s classes from that account.

4.                    Parents only need one account at all times. Parents can add multiple students to one account, or remove students if necessary.

5.                    Parents of younger children who are asked to create a student account for their child only need to create one account.  The child/student will use the same account for all their classes and throughout all their years in school. The same rule applies for parent accounts- one account is used year after year, until your student/child graduates.

**all information taken from edmodo.com*****