This site is designed to increase interaction between teachers and developers to get them tools that they could really use in the classroom, Borg says. You want to build a mobile app that allows you complete control over the user experience and design. Theyalso can vote on the ideas that they like the most. This quiz is incomplete To play this quiz, please finish editing it.
"In order to make something like this work you have to have a large, active user base in place. What developers care about is getting distribution for their applications. In order to get distribution you have to have the base and the mechanism for them to build. Edmodo is the best place to do that."Įdmodo, which recently raised $15 million in Series B financing led by Greylock Partners and Benchmark, also is announcing today a Teacher-Developer Exchange, which is a site where teachers can suggest apps or tools to developers that they would like to use. "What's happening here is the API is going to enable a more personalized, richer and deeper experience for teachers and students," Cohler says. Cohler sees parallels with those companies. LinkedIn, both of whichhave third-party platforms.
Teachers can now print individual student’s quiz submissions easily.
Teachers have the option to download and share a PDF version of any Edmodo Library quiz. Matt Cohler, partner at Edmodo investor Benchmark Capital, previously was an executive at Facebook and New in Edmodo 10.40.0: Thanks for using Edmodo This week’s release includes a few new quiz updates which we hope will make Student and Teacher life better on the app. They're not textbooks, but "modular" pieces of content, Borg says, and not just text but also interactive content. Applications include BrainNook, Schooltube, StudyEgg, Third World Farmer and GradeCam. In addition, textbook publishers have their learning apps on the new platform. Children can access Edmodo in two ways: either via the app or by going to Edmodo using your internet browser.
For teachers, Edmodo has document libraries on subjects such as Social Studies or Biology where teachers can share materials with teachers from other schools.Įxamples of apps on the platform include an interactive graphing calculator that can send graphs to classmates, an interactive chemistry lab service, a a print your own scantron application and social multiplayer math games. Students turn in digital assignments and teachers can enter and manage grades on the service. Students view this information in what is for them a familiarįacebook-like stream of information like the News Feed. Teachers use Edmodo to communicate with students and students can also communicate with each other about class assignments or class topics. Teachers can write messages about assignments, post materials for assignments or discuss a class topic.
Edmodo is a startup looking to disrupt the education industry with its social networking tools for the classroom. Today Edmodo is opening up its API and providing a platform for third-party developers to publish educational apps to Edmodo's 6 million users and 70,000 schools.Įdmodo brings Facebook-style social tools to K-12 classrooms.