Schoology is looooved by teachers everywhere. They talk about "How easy it is to use!". NO KID LIKES IT. NOT A SINGLE ONE. It's the most convoluted system ever.
Here's schoology's "materials" page:
First off, what a stupid name. Materials? Just call it assignments. Almost all of the features are called crap like that too. One is referred to as "personal". It's actually a place to store files. Just call it "files", for Christ/any other deity's sake.
Second, WHICH OF THESE ARE DONE. Which did I complete? Did I forget to turn one in? I couldn't figure it out from the page dedicated to the assignments. There needs to be an indication that the assignment is done. Edmodo figured that out. Heck, even Google Classroom's page managed to get that right, and it's still in freaking beta stages.
Seriously. To figure out if I've done an assignment, I have to click three times, and that's from this page. Three times may not seem like a lot, but when coupled by the eye of Sauron known in school as Teacher Dashboard taking up the chinsy Chromebook's processing "power", it's truly a problem. To even get to their sorry excuse to an assignment manager, I have to click three times as well. That's a total of 6 times just to see if I did my homework. It's painful using this poorly designed program perpetuated by pencil pushing problematic people who have no clue what their technological ineptness does to their practical pupils.
The problem, as I understand it stems from the "Facebook but for school" theme that clearly went into it. It looks like Facebook, but runs like a banana stuck in the USB slot: terribly. There is no fluidity in the webpage. Everything seems seperate and clunky and, well, just plain poorly designed. It's also badly integrated with Google Drive, meaning that it feels just seperate services linked with a horsefly hair. It's an awful service.