Students enrolled in online courses at Kolbe Academy will use Schoology regularly to access course homework assignments, quizzes, tests, previous class recordings, and other materials/activities.

 

Important Note to Live Online Course Students

If you are taking live online courses at Kolbe Academy, be sure to view the Schoology Online Students sections.  While live online, digital homeschool, and asynchronous Schoology courses may look similar at a glance, there are notable differences between how content and materials are presented.  This page describes how you may find your digital homeschool or asynchronous courses set up.

 

Locating Courses

Once you are logged in at kolbe.schoology.com, you can find your course(s) by clicking Courses on the main menu at the top of the Schoology page.  A drop-down list of your courses will appear; open your course of interest by clicking on it from the list.

 

 

Note:  The course list drop-down may have a scrollbar if the student is enrolled in several courses.

 

If  you want to view your courses on a full page in Schoology (instead of a drop-down list), click the My Courses button at the rightof the list.  To open a course from this page, select the section name beneath the the course’s title.

 

 

Materials and Updates Pages

When opened, online courses in Schoology will default to the Materials page.

 

The Materials page is where you will find coursework, video lectures, and other materials (i.e. links to external sites, downloadable files, discussion boards, etc.).

 

 

Note: Discussion boards will only appear in Asynchronous courses. 

 

The Updates page, which can be accessed from the menu to the left side of the course’s page, is where you will find updates posted by the teacher or other course admins.

 

 

Materials Overview

The Materials page, which can be accessed via the menu on the right side of the course’s page, is comprised of folders that organize your assigned course work (and other materials), based on the course’s homeschool course plan. 

The Materials page will contain the following:

 

• A “Course Resources” folder, which contains information that is pertinent to the course as a whole.  Contents may include (but are not limited to) the homeschool course syllabus and Kolbe publications used throughout the course, as well as information on books.
• Semester 1 and 2 folders, which contain course readings, assignments, video lectures, self-graded quizzes, and potentially other supplemental material to help you better master the course’s content.

 

You can click the drop-down arrow next to a folder to expand it and see it’s contents on the same page.  You can also expand sub-folders in the same way.

 

 

To view additional information about materials within a folder, click the folder’s title (i.e “Semester 1”) to open its contents in a new page.  This will allow you to preview additional information for materials, including instructions for each assignment (though you may have to open an assignment fully to see the entirety of its instructions).

 

 

Below are different types of materials you may find throughout your digital homeschool or asynchronous courses:

 

 

Note: Discussion Boards are only available for use in Asynchronous courses.

 

Course Gradebook (for Asynchronous Courses Only)

Important Note about Grades

It is important to understand that a digital homeschool course is ultimately a homeschool course, meaning the parent has the final say regarding final grades.  In asynchronous courses, the final grade is reported by the teacher.  

 

Parents can review our grade reporting articles for more information. We suggest starting with reviewing the Grade Report Submission Overview and the Grade Reporting Guide for the student's grade level to get started for digital homeschool courses. Contact your family advisor if you have questions about submitting assignments and grade reports to Kolbe.

 

Once you’ve submitted some assignments and the teacher has graded them, you can view the grades of those assignments in one place by visiting the Grades tab to the left side of the course page.  This will bring up a drop-down list that can be expanded down from the overall school year down to each individual assignment within the course’s categories.

 

 

Note: Kolbe Academy records grades for Semester 1 and Semester 2 on Kolbe grade reports.  An “overall” grade that averages the two semesters is not provided on the official transcripts.