Add and Configure Content and Assessments to a Course In Schoology

Objective: Learn how to add content and assessments within the Schoology LMS.

Related Article: Grading Teacher Graded Items in Schoology

How-To Add Content

Navigate to the Unit and Lesson the activity belongs in, select “Add Materials” near the top.
Select “Add File/Link/External Tool”, and select “External Tool”.

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Fill in the “Title” and “URL”.
Check the “Enable Grading” box and fill out the Due Date and Category if the activity is an assessment or should be graded (Checkpoint, Guided Practice, etc.)

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The “Tool Provider” can be left as automatic, but it will take the activity longer to load on its first launch. When leaving the “Tool Provider” field as automatic, the “Consumer Key” and “Shared Secret” fields can remain empty.

Discussion Boards will import from a cartridge, however, their grading needs to be manually configured.
Import the cartridge to Resources.
Go to the course and navigate to lesson the Discussion Board belongs to. Select “Add Materials” and then ”Import from Resources”.
Navigate through the cartridge to find the respective Discussion Board.
Select “Advanced options”. Check the box for “Enable Grading”, enter a point value in “Max pts”, and select the gradebook “Category”.

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