The top navigation bar is visible from anywhere on the site once you have logged in. On the left side of the top bar, you can navigate to the four main areas of Schoology: Home, Courses, Groups and Resources.

Clicking the Schoology logo always brings you back to your home page, the landing page you see when you log in. This is where you see your Recent Activity feed and Course Dashboard.

Clicking Courses displays courses you are personally enrolled in. A shield icon displays in the top right corner of the courses you administer. Your courses are your virtual classrooms. This is where you will instruct, grade, and communicate with your students. Your courses contain all your instructional materials (e.g., files, assignments, and assessments) along with communication and organizational tools strictly associated with the course.

From your Courses drop-down, you can navigate to your existing courses. Clicking My Courses on the right, allows you to create courses, view current and archived courses, join courses and search for courses.

Clicking Groups displays the groups you are enrolled in. A shield icon displays in the top right corner of the groups you administer. Clicking My Groups on the right, allows you to create groups, view current and archived groups, join groups and search for groups.

Groups are collaborative spaces to share ideas and resources, organize events, and connect with other educators. Groups can be used in many different ways from professional development to student extracurricular activities, so the best way to learn about their potential is simply by joining some open ones.

Click Resources to create, view, edit, and manage all your instructional resources. From Resources, you can navigate directly to your Personal resources, any Group resources you have access to, all of the Public resources on Schoology, and any Resource Apps you may have installed.

On the right side of the navigation bar are three icons relating to Search (magnifier icon), App Center (four boxes icon), and your Calendar (calendar icon).

~ Search allows you to find courses, groups and people in Schoology.

~ The App Center delivers powerful access to apps that you can install to integrate content and services with Schoology.

~ The Calendar aggregates events from all of your associated courses, groups and organizations, along with your personal events.

Also on the right side of the navigation bar you have icons relating to Messages (envelope icon) and Connections & Notifications (bell icon). Any time someone sends you a message, wants to connect, or does something that pertains to you or your affiliations, it will be made easily accessible in the top right corner of your screen. Everything is chronologically ordered and clickable to make managing them simple.

At the bottom of every Schoology page, the footer includes the following:

~ Language Selector — Use this menu to set the language of your Schoology experience.

~ Support Center — Access the Support Center to view your Support Contacts and/or support options, as well as links to the Schoology Help Center and Community forums.

~ Schoology Blog — Navigate to the blog, the Schoology Exchange.

~ Privacy Policy — View the Privacy Policy.

~ Terms of Use —View the Terms of Use.

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You'll notice that your Groups look very similar to Courses. Groups are more about communication and resource sharing. They can be set up for students as well as educators to connect with each other, enabling individuals and teams to work together to improve education on a variety of levels.

The Resource Center is a centralized place where all of your instructional and professional development materials are kept. It is closely tied to your courses and your groups. You can import files, create new resources, and copy or move them into any or all of your courses quickly from the Resource Center.

You can also share resources with your groups and download them from the Schoology Public Resource Library. Any course materials, folders, and even entire courses can be copied in your resources for use on a later date.