Parent Guide to Schoology

Tips for Parents using Schoology – Viewing your Son’s Progress Schoology is playing an increasingly important role in the learning of our students and in teachers’ communication with parents. Because teachers provide written feedback to students via Schoology on a continual basis about their learning, no written comments will be provided by subject teachers in semester reports. So now, parents are able to monitor the progress of their son(s) regularly, in real time, rather than wait until the end of the semester.

A reminder about how parents access Schoology Parent Access to Schoology is designed to be ‘view only’ access. That is, it enables you to see your son’s Courses and Groups and to see exactly the same information that your son can see. This means you will be able to view: 

Course updates, information posted on the Materials Page as well as you son’s results and his teacher’s comments

This also means you do not need any Course or Group Access Codes to see your son’s activity in any part of Schoology – you will always see exactly what your son can see via his account.

Initiating Parent Access 1. From the internet, log into https://schoology.vic.edu.au and, when prompted, enter your School User ID (xxxxx@cgs.vic.edu.au) and your password. This will give you access to the full Schoology site.

2. From an app, log into your account: 3. Click on your profile on the top right-hand side of the horizontal navigation bar 4. From the drop-down menu, select your son’s name and click on it 5. This will allow you to see your son’s Courses (select Courses from the horizontal navigation bar) or Groups (select Groups from the horizontal navigation bar).

Courses Click Courses to expand a card­based menu of the courses in which your son is enrolled:

Groups Click Groups to expand a card­based menu of the groups in which your son is enrolled:

Viewing the Child Activity View Using the toggle in the account drop­down menu, toggle into view your Child Activity View to see your child's Schoology information.

From the home page, you can quickly view specific information about your son’s Schoology activity: 1.

The Student Activity area in the centre of the page displays your son’s recent submission and grade information.

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Toggle into Enrolments in the same area to see a list of the courses your son is currently enrolled in, along with his grade. If the teacher has chosen not to display the grade while the course is in progress, you will see a blank value (as in the grade column above). Click on an individual course to see grades received on assignments, tests, and discussions from that course.

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The Recent Grades/Attendance area lists graded assignments, tests/quizzes and discussions for your son. To view the graded items, click the item you'd like to view.

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The Overdue section displays a list of course materials your son did not turn in by the due date.

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The Upcoming section displays a list of your son’s upcoming assignments.

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Courses: You can see a list of your child’s current courses. Click the course name to navigate to the course profile as your son views it.

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Groups: You can see a list of your son’s Schoology Groups. Groups can be used for a variety of activities, from school projects to extracurricular teams and clubs.

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Grades: You’ll be able to see all the grades and teachers’ comments your son has received in each subject.

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Calendar: Click to view a calendar of past and upcoming events and assignments. To find out more information regarding a particular event, place your cursor over the title. A clue tip displays with the event type (assignment, test/quiz, event), the event's course or group, and your son’s name.

Click the event to display profile information in a pop-up window.