What people complain about in Schoology
5 reported problems name Schoology as what the person is currently using. Below is what they said was missing, and what they resorted to instead.
- Complaints
- 5
- Avg severity
- 3.2/5
- Would pay to fix
- 0
- Industries
- 1
What they wish it did
Capabilities people described needing that Schoology does not give them, taken from the highest-scoring problems first. These are individual accounts written in each person’s own terms, so two entries may describe the same underlying gap in different words.
- A simple tool to distribute online assignments to students without a full LMS, bypassing the need for personal Google accounts and copying
- A submission portal that works independently of the main LMS, allowing students to turn in work online even when the primary system is down
- A reliable export tool that allows teachers to back up and transfer Schoology course content between schools
- A digital grading tool that visually keeps ungraded work persistently in focus for ADHD users
- A cheating-resistant digital writing environment that simulates in-class timed essays without printing
- Bi-directional sync between Schoology and PowerSchool for assignment metadata
What they do instead
The manual processes people built around the gap. A long workaround list is the strongest evidence a problem is real: someone is already paying for it in time. Where several people described the same workaround, it is marked.
- making print copies of assignments
- pushing out homework and activities as print copies
- not trusting students to make copies of Google Sheets
- found a way online to back up assignments manually
- previously lugged home hundreds of paper notebooks to grade
- supplies own paper and limits printing to avoid out-of-pocket costs until reimbursed in October
- teaches texts and analysis with limited printing by relying on digital alternatives
- Manually copies assignment titles and descriptions from Schoology into PowerSchool
Industries
The problems themselves
Highest opportunity score first.
A first-year science teacher cannot deliver pre-lab activities or collect assignments because the school's LMS, Schoology, has been non-functional for over a week, forcing them to use paper copies and stalling lab work.
4HighEducationSoftware Reliability & PerformanceEduFallbackTeacher needs to back up course materials from Schoology before losing access due to school transfer, but the backup process is uncertain and risky.
4HighEducationData ManagementCourseKeeper BackupA returning high school English teacher with ADHD struggles to manage digital grading and lesson prep on an iPad-based platform while minimizing cheating, without reliable printing access or a system that works with her 'out of sight, out of mind' ADHD brain.
3MediumEducationGrading & AssessmentFocusGrade for ADHD TeachersTeachers cannot easily sync assignment details between Schoology and PowerSchool, forcing parents to check both systems to find missing assignments.
2MildEducationSoftware Integration & CompatibilityGradeSync ProA teacher is confused about Schoology gradebook settings, as students see both weighted and unweighted grades, causing confusion and inaccurate grade display.
3MediumEducationGradebook Management & AssessmentGradeClarity
Read this fairly
These are complaints, and only complaints — nobody posts to say their software worked. A high count mostly reflects how many people use Schoology at all, so this page is not a quality judgement and should not be read as one. What it is good for is the shape of the gaps: the specific jobs people could not get done, which are the same whether the tool is popular or not.