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of who turned in the assignments and when. Students can also ask everything regarding to academic problems outside the school time.
Second, Edmodo is designed to engage students’ motivation in learning
process because of various platform provided in this application. The features of the platform are quizzes, assignments, online tests, messages, comments and
document libraries. Through these features, students will not be bored to do the learning process and they will be more motivated. According to Balasubramanian,
et al. 2014, if teachers implement Edmodo in the classroom, it will be a powerful medium in their learning environment. In her research, Kara 2016 also states that
by using Edmodo, students can do their individual or group assignment online and teachers look at their works and give feedback online p. 11.
Moreover, based on the previous study that was done by Apriani 2015 56.7 of the students believed that Edmodo was an effective educational website
to learn English, especially writing. Furthermore, Bayne n.d. feels that Edmodo permits students to develop their creativity through writing p. 2. Next, Thompson
n.d. also believes that Edmodo is great for writing projects, language practice, grammar practice and many more p. 6. He also adds that in Edmodo, all works on
all assignments are available and archived well because it has an outstanding memory p. 8. Therefore, Edmodo can be one of the media for teachers to
encourage students practice their writing skill. Even though students and teachers do not meet in the classroom, their teacher can still give some meaningful feedback
to their writing directly. Besides, students can comment on each other about their writing, so that their writing will be better than before. However, to use Edmodo
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both students and teacher have to connect their mobile device or laptop to the internet Bayne, n.d., p. 2. Unfortunately, not all the classrooms have access to the
Internet. Thus, teachers need to provide the classroom with a good internet connection.
Bayne also adds that “since Edmodo is an online medium, there will be lag time in feedback response from peers and teacher” p. 2. Besides, if it is done
outside the classroom, some students might not have the tools to connect to Edmodo. Moreover, the use of Edmodo might lead students to do the ethical issues
such as copying and cheating on others’ work Enriquez, 2014. It means that it will provoke students to do plagiarism in educational field. However, the researcher will
ensure that students will not do such things in this study.