Schoology

No, attendance will be taken in PowerSchool. Only the gradebook can sync from Schoology to PowerTeacher Pro.

There is a link that says ACPS Support at the bottom of every Schoology page.   Clicking it opens a Help Center where you can search Schoology resources.

Additionally, feel free to reach out to your school's Learning Technology Integrator or email LMS Support.

Schoology accounts are automatically created for parents who have a PowerSchool Parent Portal account. Parents have view-only access to any courses or groups in which their student is enrolled. Learn about parent access.

ACPS Employees

​​If you are an ACPS employee and used your k12albemarle email address to create your PowerSchool Parent Portal account, you will use your existing Schoology account to view your student's information.

Use the Staff login you have been using during the school year for Schoology. 

• The username is your ACPS username
• ​The password is your current ACPS password
• ​​You CANNOT change your password through Schoology, the password will update when you change your ACPS password

You can change between your personal profile and your student's information by changing the name in the dropdown in the top right corner of your Schoology screen. If you have more than one student you can select another name here as well.​

Yes. This article provides instructions on how to link your Schoology calendar to Outlook, Apple Calendar, and Google Calendar.

Note: The calendar link is one-way. Schoology calendars can not receive items from an outside source, only send.

This document contains a list of the assessment item types supported by Schoology Assessments.

This document has the detailed instructions (requires ACPS login). You will link the Illuminate Assessment as an External Tool in Schoology.

Standards can be aligned to assignments. Using 100 ‘points’ would mimic a % entry. Numeric values, assignment title, and category are transferred in the PowerSchool grade passback.

Students who join a class midyear will automatically have overdue notifications generated for any existing assignment in Schoology where the due date has passed. Assignments can be excluded for students to correct this issue. Please reference the Fixing the Overdue Assignment Notice for New Students support document for a step-by-step recommendation for correcting this issue for students who transfer into a section midyear.

Groups are a great way to connect, communicate, and share resources with your colleagues. Some examples include grade level resources, vertical team curriculum, PLCs and extracurricular activities. All content created and shared in a group can be copied directly into your courses in just two clicks!

Courses have a handful of additional features including graded assignments and assessments, Course Analytics, and Workload Planning. Courses are created automatically and informed by your PowerSchool schedule.

Unfortunately, teachers are unable to rename the Schoology courses that are generated by PowerSchool due to the backend cataloging of courses and how they sync with Powerschool.

You can work around this by changing your course image. This is a frequent request and ACPS has asked Schoology for this product enhancement.

If they are the same course, teacher, and school, you can link them using this guide.  You can also follow this video tutorial.

If they are a different course, teacher, or school, you can request they be merged by submitting this form.  You can also follow this video tutorial.

CAUTION: When unlinking or unmerging sections, only the master section retains the materials, setup, grades, and other data. Submissions and grades for any child sections will be lost. To prevent the loss of student grades, make sure to export each section's gradebook before unlinking or unmerging sections.

Go to the course "Members" and click "Add Member". Once added, you must make them an admin.  In the interest of student data privacy, you should apply section level overrides for other admin in the course.  This can further restrict their access to edit materials, view/change grades and such.  There are multiple levels of permissions.  You can learn more by following this link. 

You can manually add a student for the current day but will be removed during the nightly roster sync if you go to "Members" and click "Add Member".

A great way is to reorder the courses so the most recent ones come first or to unenroll from courses no longer needed. Learn how

Sometimes, errors can occur for students and instructors trying to view a Google document because:

• A student attempts to view a file and discovers they no longer have access. A Google account and/or privileges had previously given them access to the file, but now they are using a different Google account and cannot access it.
• A student or instructor attempts to view a file and discovers they no longer have access. They are logged into Schoology but are not actually logged into a Google account.

These errors are typically resolved by reconnecting the Google Drive Assignments App with force logout.

The Google Drive Assignment app in Schoology requires 3rd party cookies to work correctly. If a student opens a Google Drive Assignment with 3rd party cookies blocked in their web browser, both the student and their teacher will see an "Access Denied" error message. To resolve the error, follow the instructions below to enable 3rd party cookies.

• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari

This error indicates the person attempting to access the assignment is neither the document owner nor the student. This is typically seen when a co-teacher is attempting to access the assignment. To resolve this, ask the teacher who originally created the assignment to share the student submissions folder directly from Google Drive.

Student submissions are located in My Drive > Schoology Google Drive Assignments > [Course Section Name] > [Assignment Name].

If you created the assignment, then your Google account has likely become disconnected from the Google Drive Assignment App. To resolve this, follow this click path and enter your ACPS credentials.  Resources > Apps > Google Drive Resource App > Options > Account Settings

This message displays when the Google Assignment app is no longer associated with the teacher's Google Drive account. To resolve this, reconnect the Google Drive Assignment app with a force logout.

These features are unavailable when viewing or editing a Google Drive Assignment in Schoology. To access these features, open the document in a separate tab by clicking Edit (students) or Open (teachers). The video below demonstrates the limitations and the workaround.

How to Access Reading/Writing Tools in Google Drive Assignments

No. This is a function of how Google Shared Drive handles permissions with sharing. To share items from Google Drive with Schoology they will need to be in My Drive.

Yes. No decision has been made to terminate Google Classroom.

Google Sites is an additional portfolio tool. Students can submit links to their portfolio through Schoology as part of an assignment.

Schoology will preclude the need for Google Classroom.

By default, only the teacher that creates the Google Drive Assignment is able to view student work based on how the share settings work. To fix this:

Any teacher creating Google Drive Assignments: Go to Google Drive and find, then share edit access to, the "Schoology Google Drive Assignments" folder with your co-teacher(s).

Any teacher just viewing the student work: You will now be able to view the student's Google Drive Assignment work in Schoology.

Yes, your course grades can sync in one direction, from Schoology to Powerteacher. Learn how to set up Gradebook sync.  You can watch a video here. 

If you change a grade in Schoology, it will change the grade in PowerSchool when you sync it. If you change a grade in Powerschool, it will not change the grade in Schoology.

Sync Changes

Clicking the Sync Changes button or the Sync Icon in the top-right of the Schoology Gradebook will only sync new assignments and grades that have been edited since the most recent sync. Any grades, comments, or flags that have been manually entered in PowerSchool will not be overwritten if the corresponding gradebook entry in Schoology has not been altered.

Sync Individual Assignment

Clicking the Sync icon to the right of an assignment will transfer all grades and comments for that assignment. Any grades, comments, or flags that have been manually entered in PowerSchool will be overwritten. Because this type of sync overrides manually entered information in PowerSchool, it is recommended that it should only be used the first time an assignment is synced in order to create the assignment in PowerSchool and transfer an initial set of grades, after which the Sync Changes options above should be used.

First, follow the steps in this checklist to ensure the PowerSchool App, Grade Setup, and Assignments are configured correctly for the grade sync. If you are still having trouble, contact LMS Support.

When using gradebook sync with PowerSchool it is recommended to input these grades manually in PowerSchool because of how these tags transfer. If your school has a minimum grade policy, be sure to manually override the grades in PowerSchool to remove zeros.

It is recommended that the overall class grade be hidden in Schoology since PowerSchool is the gradebook of record and there is potential for confusion when students see discrepancies between their grade in Schoology and their grade in PowerSchool.

Use Final Grade Settings within Grade Setup to hide the grades. The settings can be found in this document (requires login to ACPS SharePoint)