5 Edmodo structure facilitates informal education; however, the order
of the content of courses and materials is not entirely clear. The weaknesses of Edmodo by Charles Wankel 2011:26 are:
1 Network connectivity problems can cause to run slowly
2 Students have limited access to the outside world
3 Sometimes posts may take several minutes to appear
4 Still in beta stage-still has bugs
From some experts ’ opinions about weaknesses of Edmodo, it can
be concluded that the weakness of Edmodo is the Edmodo lacks of private message services for students, tagging. Like other
applications, Edmodo still has room for improvement.
d. Edmodo Features
According to the Umaroh in the Seminar Prosiding in Education National University PGRI Palembang 2013:745, Edmodo have
features to support teaching learning process. Edmodo has features solely for teachers and both teacher and students. The following are
the list of Edmodo features: 1
Assignment Assignment used by teachers to give assignments to students
2 File and Links
On this feature, teachers and students can send messages by attaching files and links for a class group, other students or
teachers.
3 Quiz
Quiz used to provide an online evaluation either multiple choice, Cloze, or essay. Quiz can only be made by teachers, while students
can only work on it. 4
Polling Polling can only be created by teachers to be shared with students.
Usually teachers use polls to find out students responses about certain things related lessons.
5 Gradebook
Gradebook features used as a record of the students marks. 6
Library This feature is used as a storage area for a variety of learning
resources with diverse content. 7
Award Badges This feature is used to give an award to students or groups.
8 Parents Codes
This feature serves to give a chance to the parents of students to join the monitoring of learning activities and accomplishments of
his sons and daughters, teachers must Access the code for the students parents and then share it on the respective parents.
