In the last couple of weeks I've been listening to a couple of professors complaining about not accessing Facebook at the University, I asked myself "If this professors are so much into Facebook, why they can have the same attitude toward Blackboard?". I found the answer in "Schoology". Schoology is an online learning management system that I found while looking for Web 2.0 Tools. The only requirement is register your name, email, course(s), and school/college/university that you are teaching at. Yes, it's free!!!. When you are in your main page, you'll see that it looks almost like Facebook.
You can add a photo to your profile and organize your course material in the folders available on Schoology, like assignments, tests, files/links and have a discussion board. In the "test" category, professors can specify if the test is midterm or final. Quizzes and tests can be a mix of categories like "true or false", "matching", multiple choice", "fill the blanks" and they can program how many minutes or hours the test will be available to the student, if the questions will appear in a random order, etc. Other features are a gradebook, attendance list and a analytic feature that shows the teacher how many times the student enter the page, post on the discussion board, work on the assignments, etc.
Like Facebook, teachers can write updates on their webpage like announcements on holidays, quizzes, etc. Teachers can use Schoology to have a complete online course or as a addition to their face-to-face class.
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