Gina from The Autism Helper shows how she organizes Schoology for remote learning, with weekly folders, how-to videos for parents, and Boom Cards for interactive practice and data tracking. She demonstrates linking PowerPoints and PDFs to daily folders and using attendance features to monitor engagement without pressure.
Hey everyone, this is Gina from The Autism Helper. I just wanted to show you Schoology. This is obviously something that your county would have purchased if this is the learning platform that they would like to do for e-learning. I know some people are doing Google Classrooms and just all different types of platforms, and I think that's incredible. And even though they're all different, I think, you know, I just want to kind of show you how I set mine up if that would help somebody else. This is in early childhood, however, we use this all the way up to 12th grade and AP classes. It was very easy to learn. I literally learned this last week and I've been using it this whole week and just kind of going through it. But I have like my main dashboard. Each week I'll have a week of folders. I have some how-to videos that I've put in here showing how to sign on to Boomcards, using task cards that are PDF files, iBooks for Androids, and just some different how-to videos for parents in case they get stuck and I'm not available. You know, by phone to help them in that very minute. I also put in there some additional information, so I have some e-learning expectations, you know, when my office hours are and so on. We have some speech and language, OT, and then some additional resources where I put some Boomcards that I've purchased in there. Each week, um, the folder won't show up until that morning, which I think is kind of cool, and I have little PowerPoints saved in each one. So for example, Today they watched this PowerPoint that I created. I just made a little link to it and they could pull up the PowerPoint with all the teaching videos within it. And then— go back in— and then after each PowerPoint I link some activities. My parents know that they don't have to do all these. I just put them in there. I have some printables. Some PDF files depending on what they want to access, and my new most favorite thing ever. Guys, I am so addicted to these Boom Cards. I love them, and Autism Helper of course have come up with the most amazing Boom Cards, and I'll show you a little demo. These are amazing if you haven't seen them. They track progress. They collect all kinds of data. Let's see here. I want to do matching with the Autism Helper. I mean, how amazing is this? Right in there for them. They can print them out if they want. Um, we got one wrong. And just all these are targeted to the assessment of basic language and learner skills, so you know that they're appropriate for your kids, that they're targeting very, very important skills. They're so engaging. I've really, really loved them. I'm definitely Definitely hooked on the BoomCard train here. You guys got to check it out. And so I just do that for each day. I can check attendance and analytics and see, you know, who's able to log on. I really don't bug people about it, you know, they'll do it when they can do it. But I just thought this was a neat way to upload information and kind of have your classroom all set up with different little PowerPoints and activities for each day.
