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Case Study: Blended Learning at Scale Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS) uses Edmodo as a plaorm to implement the Design for Excellence 2020 strategic plan. District Profile CCPS Needs CCPS was looking for a next-generaon Learning Management System (LMS) capable of: Why Edmodo? According to CCPS Execuve Director of Technology, Dr. Adam Seldow, “Our quantave data indicated that Edmodo had a strong presence among CCPS students and teachers, approximately 33% and 14% respecvely. Our qualitave data indicated that, according to teachers, key Edmodo adopon factors were the opportunies for ‘unstructured’ professional development (PD), familiar user interface, ease of formave assessment, and increased student engagement. Students required no training, appreciated the message noficaons, mobile apps, and the ability to communicate with their teachers and classmates outside of formal class me.” From a technical perspecve, Dr. Seldow listed his key Edmodo decision points: District: Chesterfield County, VA Public Schools Number of Students: Approximately 60,000 Number of Schools: 62 Ed.D. Harvard University, B.S. West Point CTO: Adam Seldow Licensed superintendent and principal Taught math in Boston Public Schools Safe, secure cloud-based plaorm where district curriculum leaders can funcon as Edmodo subdomain administrators. Quickly and easily scales to 60,000 students and over 4,000 teachers using few district resources. Unlimited file storage and handles mulmedia files with ease. Integrates easily with district’s exisng SSO and account lifecycle management tool. Deep-level integraon with Google Apps for Educaon. Plaorm is free, CCPS pays for rich supplemental content via the Edmodo Plaorm. Dually serves as the CCPS one-stop-shop for PD. Teachers and students selected Edmodo - not the technology department. Fostering communicaon among students and staff, handled prototypical LMS tasks with ease, open APIs and a flexible architecture that easily integrated with exisng systems. Providing teachers access to supplemental content that can be made available to their students directly from within the LMS. Engaging teachers in frequent and detailed formave assessments with students where the data is immediately accessible and easy to interpret by students, teachers, and parents. Learn more at www.edmodo.com

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Case Study: Blended Learning at ScaleChesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS) uses Edmodo as a platform to implementthe Design for Excellence 2020 strategic plan.

District Profile

CCPS NeedsCCPS was looking for a next-generation Learning Management System (LMS) capable of:

Why Edmodo?According to CCPS Executive Director of Technology, Dr. Adam Seldow, “Our quantitative data indicated that Edmodo had a strong presence among CCPS students and teachers, approximately 33% and 14% respectively. Our qualitative data indicated that, according to teachers, key Edmodo adoption factors were the opportunities for ‘unstructured’ professional development (PD), familiar user interface, ease of formative assessment, and increased student engagement. Students required no training, appreciated the message notifications, mobile apps, and the ability to communicate with their teachers and classmates outside of formal class time.” From a technical perspective, Dr. Seldow listed his key Edmodo decision points:

District: Chesterfield County, VA Public Schools

Number of Students: Approximately 60,000Number of Schools: 62

Ed.D. Harvard University, B.S. West Point

CTO: Adam Seldow

Licensed superintendent and principal

Taught math in Boston Public Schools

Safe, secure cloud-based platform where district curriculum leaders can function as Edmodo subdomain administrators.

Quickly and easily scales to 60,000 students and over 4,000 teachers using few district resources.

Unlimited file storage and handles multimedia files with ease. Integrates easily with district’s existing SSO and account lifecycle management tool.

Deep-level integration with Google Apps for Education. Platform is free, CCPS pays for rich supplemental content via the Edmodo Platform.

Dually serves as the CCPS one-stop-shop for PD.Teachers and students selected Edmodo - not the technology department.

Fostering communication among students and staff, handled prototypical LMS tasks with ease, open APIs and a flexible architecture that easily integrated with existing systems.

Providing teachers access to supplemental content that can be made available to their students directly from within the LMS.

Engaging teachers in frequent and detailed formative assessments with students where the data is immediately accessible and easy to interpret by students, teachers, and parents.

Learn more at www.edmodo.com