Edmodo

As/ the other reviews this app is terrible! What is even the point of having a parent account if the parent can't do anything you can't send a message privately you can't post you can't do anything so just leave it as the child login but they can't really do much either except for message the teacher privately.

Seesaw is an amazing app and unfortunately the school my son is in allows the teachers to pick their individual preferences I'm assuming his teacher picked this one because it's free... because it's absolutely garbage.

Just why does my school even use this trash, I can't do anything on the iPad/iPhone version; a teacher posts a link under a post as a comment and I can't click on it, then WHY IS IT A LINK TO BEGIN WITH? It's not like website version is any better. I tried creating parent accounts to test if it works in different modes, and I found out that parent accounts CAN'T EVEN SEE THE COMMENT ITSELF. Edmodo is available for like what, a few good years and there still is a link problem in 2018? Simply put, Edmodo is utter garbage. Stay away and maybe you'll save yourself from the pain I (and probably many other victims of Edmodo) went through.

Edmodo is described to be an effective learning tool, considering its capabilities of fast communication between teachers and students. However, this is not always the case, especially for someone like myself. In my school, the day is divided into seven periods of the day, each with a specific and different teacher. Edmodo doesn't allow a student to use 1 account for all their teacher's classes. Instead, it forces you to make a new one for every class. This is already a bad example of design and processing. Oh, don't worry, it gets worse! Since teachers all require different curriculum, it can be quite confusing having to create several accounts. At this point, you can't even immediately join, as Edmodo requires the teacher to validate your account, and let you into the "group". For teachers, this can be frustrating, as one can imagine having to wait for every single one of your students to join the group before starting to upload assignments. On the student's side, it is just as infuriating; if one student is missing work, and needs to join the classroom from a lack of having computer/cellphone access at home, they cannot do so until the teacher lets them join the group. Thus, coming to school the next day, the student will find themselves with a missing assignment and a poor grade, all because of a safety pre-caution not even seriously taken by nearly most of the teachers at the school. For the icing on the cake, if teachers are not active with their own accounts, and only passively update assignments on Edmodo, the system will automatically sweep; deleting BOTH the classroom and ALL of the student's accounts. Not only is this just absurd on some level, for what reason it'd be implemented, it's painstakingly a setback for the entire class. A big success for Edmodo tarnishing the advancement of education.
Perhaps this is all a bit over exaggerated, but coming from an AP student who's teachers require this, it's frustrating. My near-future essay will most likely be stained with tears on its cover.

Sincerely,

A flabbergasted and sleep-deprived student, who is now practically on an IV of coffee and stress because of this disaster

If you like the intergrated approach to teaching/ learning and the flipped classroom this is a great tool to help you with that