Dictate in any app · Education
Schoology connects teachers, students and parents, which triples the writing. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Schoology without you touching the keyboard.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Schoology already does without talking you out of using it.None. Text entry is typed throughout.
Communicating with parents as well as students doubles the audience for everything and changes the register required. Teachers end up writing two versions of the same message, or writing neither.
In practice people use it for: Assignment feedback, parent updates, course announcements, discussion moderation, and grade comments.
Nothing changes inside Schoology itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Click first. Typally types into Schoology wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
Different audiences have different fields — student comments, parent messages, class posts. Confirm which one has focus.
Typally types into feedback fields, parent messages and announcements, so the short personal note to eight families costs a few minutes rather than an evening. Confirm which field has focus first, since student comments, parent messages and class posts sit close together and have different audiences.
A teacher sends a short spoken-then-edited note to the parents of the eight students whose work changed most this term. Each takes under a minute, and it changes the tone of every conversation at the next parents' evening.
Say the parent update as if at a parents' evening. Written updates drift into institutional language, which is exactly what makes parents anxious rather than informed.
Different audiences have different fields — student comments, parent messages, class posts. Confirm which one has focus.
No. All fields are typed.
Yes. Bear in mind student information is confidential — the same care applies as with any communication about a child.
Yes, each comment field accepts text like any other.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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