Edmodo

Edmodo is a social media platform created specifically for use within a classroom between a teacher, his or her students, and their parents. It can be used from grades K-12. Teachers create class pages and add their students to the pages. Once given access, students and parents can view assignments, work collaboratively, and send questions to the teacher from school or from home.

Edmodo can be used in the classroom along with the principles of UDL in the learning environment. Teachers can use the tool to engage students in a multitude of ways. Different methods of engagement such as polls, games, videos, etc. can be posted on the class page for students to access. Students and teachers can share multiple different means of expression to demonstrate their learning and representation of content information, respectively. Links to presentations, websites, or blogs created by students can be shared with the teacher via Edmodo.

While Edmodo does not expressively promote the principles of UDL by design, it does provide a medium for teachers to include those principles in the way the run their classes.


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