Skies Learn

Skies is absolutely marvelous. I’ve been using it for three years. After teaching for 25 years I’ve never seen anything so versatile and useful for my class. The part I LOVE the most is it’s simplicity. Yet it has depth of complexity and more capabilities as you learn more about Skies. I LOVE because in seconds I can create and post assignments. I LOVE how I can look at all the students work at the same time. It also has the same capability as ZOOM. However it’s BETTER because you can see all the breakout rooms at the same time! The video search is fabulous and the image search is so creative because you can find animated GIFs. You can colorcode the cards to bring the students attention two different assignments. You can hide assignments so the students can only see what you want to to see. I can go on and on. If you need help it’s always available either through chat or email. You can even get 1:1 sessions for personalized training. While it may have glitches from time to time the creators of the company are constantly improving in fixing everything. It’s a work in progress, but aren’t we all?

Although my students are only second grade, they enjoyed using this app since the second week of the school. It is the only app that I can use daily with the target language for all subjects. Also, the team is super friendly and helpful. Very happy my principal discovered them.

I think this app is wonderful! The only thing it lacks is notifications! Teachers and students should be given the option to turn notifications on when someone posts something, asks a question or answers a question, etc. Sometimes when there is a lot it can get hard to track who posted what where! It becomes tedious to have to tap through all the different tabs to see if there is something new posted.