Edmodo

"Very useful even for non 100% educational institutions"

Commentaires: We are not an educational institution like a School, College or University, but we at the hospital we offer Continuing Medical Education and Educational Training to the nurse staff and Doctors. Thats how we applied for this amazing platform without being an educational institution per-sé.
It has worked for us very nice, until now, it has been well accepted among the users.

Avantages: The user interface is very friendly (because its based in the UI of Facebook), so people get used to it very easily. I also like all the features that this platform offers.

Inconvénients: Its a little bit tricky to use at the beginning even for the administrator if you don't have to much knowledge about it.

"A great tool for distance learning and elearning"

Commentaires: It is very easy for teachers to share content, lessons, assignments, etc. with students and there are lots of great features for teachers to easily see and track student progress.

Avantages: I am the director of educational technology at a school that recently moved to distance learning. This has been a great tool for allowing our teachers to deliver quality content over the web. There is a huge resource library with lots of great content for teachers to choose.

Inconvénients: Right now it is free for teachers because of the COVID-19 crisis. I am unsure if we will have the budget to pay for it if it is not free next year.

"what's better than free?"

Commentaires: Every educator knows that platforms come and go--because Edmodo is free and not reliant on a school license, it goes wherever you go!

Avantages: It's free both online and through the app, resembles a social media (facebook) setup so it's fairly intuitive.

Inconvénients: Quiz function doesn't always work well on the smartphone app version, but fine on tablet and desktop.

"Good LMS to Help Manage the Classroom"

Commentaires: Overall, this is a good product for basic LMS needs, and worked for me in the beginning. After playing with a number of LMS apps and continuing to revamp my needs and redesign what online learning should look like, other LMS might just offer more in flexibility/features.

Avantages: As is the case with most LMS apps out there, Edmodo does a nice job shifting from paper-digital, and giving students and teachers a platform to help manage and stay organized in the digital space. The fact that you can do a lot with the free platform is a big plus and educators Everything updates in real time, and is simple enough to put together your digital needs in one space.

Inconvénients: To me, unlike some other LMS apps out there, Edmodo is limited. It doesn't have the modern or sleek look and design as others. It also doesn't have as interactive capability to embed a number of other apps/tools that teachers use daily into it. This is a must have when it comes to the digital classroom space. The more we can limit sending links and have one program integrate everything else into it, the better classroom management will be. I would also like to see some integrated features like virtual chats/video conferencing, and more enhanced lesson design features.

"Personally prefer google classroom"

Avantages: It is very easy to make a class and create work and attachments for a group or class.

Inconvénients: I feel like administrators had a bit too much control over what they saw a student did and could do.