Accessing Discovery Education
Once your district has integrated Schoology with Discovery Education, you will find a Discovery Education option in the menu bar from any course in Schoology.
Clicking Discovery Education from the left side bar will open a window to access Discovery Education. From here, you can search for resources, access channels, and explore products your district has access to. While exploring Discovery Education from this window, you can assign resources (inside Discovery Education), share resources, and engage with Discovery Education as you would from its own window. If you assign students resources through this window, they will not appear in Schoology but will appear within Discovery Education’s assignments. To assign Discovery Education within Schoology, follow the directions to embed resources.
Embed Resources in Schoology Materials
Discovery Education resources, such as videos, images, audio, text, and more, can be embedded into Schoology materials. To add a Discovery Education resource as a Schoology Material:
1. Select My Activities (Grade K-4)/Materials (Grades 5-12) from the left menu bar to open up the materials for a course.
2. If desired, create any folders needed to organize content from Discovery Education in and then click into the folder desired (if created).
3. Click Add Materials, then select Discovery Education.
4. Select an option to embed an activity from.
Search Bar: Search for resources within Discovery Education to embed. Type in a keyword for your search. A page of search results will open. These can be filtered to narrow down the resources.
Assessments: If you have previously created and saved an assessment in Discovery Education, you can embed it by clicking the Assessments button and selecting the assessment.
Favorites: If you marked any resource in Discovery Education as a Favorite, you can embed it by clicking the Favorites button and selecting the resource.
My Content: If you saved any resources into your My Content folder, you can embed it by clicking the My Content button and selecting the resource.
Studio: If you created and/or saved any interactive activities in Studio, you can embed it by clicking the Studio button and selecting the activity.
5. Click on the resource to view it. Click Back in the upper left corner to go back to the search results.
6. Once you find a resource you want to use for the assignment, click Embed. The resource will appear in the list of materials.
Once a resource has been added to Schoology, click the gear icon next to the material and click Edit to edit the grading features, Due Dates, and/or to customize assignment options.
Students will engage with the Discovery Education resource and complete the Schoology assignment as directed by the teacher. The teacher will grade the Schoology assignment like any other assignment.
Add an Assignment Link into a Schoology Assignment
Share Studio Boards & Slideshows
Within Studio, teachers can create boards (digital posters) and slideshows (digital presentations). Within each type, teachers can also choose to include quiz modules or not. All Studio projects must be created within the Discovery Education platform (either via the webpage or the embedded access within Schoology.) Learn more about Studio.
Studio boards or slideshows without quiz modules can be shared in a Schoology module by copying the Share URL for a Studio project and pasting it into the body of the Schoology material. This places all students on a single board as read-only. Learn more about sharing Studio projects.
For board or slideshow to be collaborative, a teacher will need to share within the Discovery Education platform. Teachers generally use Schoology to alert students to log into Discovery Education to access the assignment. Learn more about creating collaborative Studio projects.
Alternatively, all Studio projects can be assigned within the Discovery Education platform. A student would select Mark as Complete (if no quiz modules) or Submit Assignment (with quiz modules) in Discovery Education and a teacher could track results in Classrooms.
Embed Studio Quizzes and Assessment Builder Assignments
Studio Quizzes and assignments created in Assessment Builder can be embedded into Schoology materials with options for grade passback. To embed a Studio Quiz or Assessment Builder assignments in a Schoology Material:
1. Select My Activities (Grade K-4)/Materials (Grades 5-12) from the left menu bar to open up the materials for a course.
2. If desired, create any folders needed to organize content from Discovery Education in and then click into the folder desired (if created).
3. Click Add Materials, then select Discovery Education.
4. Click Assessments.
5. Locate the Studio Quiz or Assessment Builder assignment you would like to assign and click Embed.
6. Once an assessment has been added to Schoology, click the gear icon next to the assessment and click Edit to edit the grading features and due dates.
Be sure to check Enable Grading if you want the assignment and scores to appear in your Schoology Gradebook.
If you do not want the assignment and/or scores to sync to PowerTeacher Pro, uncheck Sync to SIS (Grades 7+).
Students will complete the assessment directly in Schoology. Once the assessments are complete, the teacher can view the results in their Schoology gradebook. Assessments with Single or Multiple Selection questions will passback the grade directly into the Gradebook. Assessments with short answer questions must be graded inside the Discovery Education platform. Access the assignment in Classrooms and grade it there. Discovery Education and Schoology have a sync set up to run every 5 minutes. Once an assessment is graded in Discovery Education, it will sync back to the Schoology gradebook in the next Scheduled Sync (Grades 7+).
Student View
Similar to a teacher, students can access Discovery Education from the menu on the left side bar. From here, students can search for resources, explore virtual field trips, or view any assignments you’ve assigned through Discovery Education. Please Note: Assignments assigned through Discovery Education will appear on this screen. Assignments assigned through Schoology
will appear in the Materials section of Schoology.)
Embeded resources will display for the students to interact with within the Schoology window. If a Studio project link is shared in Schoology, it will open the board or slideshow in the Discovery Education platform.
If the assignment includes a Studio Quiz, students can advance the pages/slides as necessary and answer the questions embedded in the board within Schoology. Once they are finished, they can click Submit Assignment.