Edmodo

Edmodo is an application whose main objective is to allow communication between teachers and students. It was created for its specific use in education, which provides the teacher with a private and closed virtual environment in which messages, files, and links, and a classroom calendar can be shared. A safe space in which to create tasks, manage them and grade them.

It is available to the entire educational community for free.

What does it bring us?

• Create private groups with limited access to teachers, students and parents.
• Have a space for communication between the different roles through messages and alerts.
• Share various multimedia resources: files, links, videos, etc.
• Incorporate the contents of our blogs through syndication.
• Launch surveys to students.
• Assign tasks to students and manage their grades.
• Manage a class calendar.
• Create communities where all the teachers and students of our educational center can be grouped
• Give parents access to the groups in which their children are assigned, allowing them to be informed of their children's activity and have the possibility of communication with teachers.
• Award badges to students as prizes for their participation in the group; the possibility of creating evaluation questionnaires (under development).
• Manage files and share resources throughout the library.
• Create subgroups for facilitating the management of working groups.
• Have a public space where to show that group activity that the teacher deems appropriate.
• Preview of library documents.
• Access through mobile devices (iPhone, Android).

Advantages:

• Allows registration at all educational levels (primary, secondary, ...)
• It is designed specifically for education, which is reflected in the type of tools it offers.
• The teacher can propose activities that are carried out on the same platform. This activity allows its qualification in the same Edmodo.
• Allows you to create subgroups (eg subjects of a course)
• Fully translated into Spanish.

Disadvantages:

• It is a microblogging type network, focused on text, where new messages replace old ones.
• The absence of communication mechanisms means that it is not really a social network.