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Edmodo is a social network designed for teacher/student interaction with an emphasis on quick communication, polling, assignment sharing, and more. It was founded in September 2008 by Jeff O'Hara and Nick Borg. The site was acquired by the Fusion Projects, a subsidiary of Revolution Learning in February 2010. Chuck Rosendahl is CEO/COO of the Fusion Project. The site has undergone continuous growth since launch, and more than 200,000 students and teachers have signed up for the service since launch.


Edmodo made to be a teaching tool that is modeled after other social networks like Facebook with a focus on communication and not just a way of sending out grade reports from the teacher to students —although you can certainly use those functions easily enough. If you sign up as an educator, you can share files, links, assignments, and grades as well as issue alerts and updates, dialogue with your students on a Facebook-like wall, survey your students, and manage map out your class syllabus on a public calendar. As a student you can contact your instructors directly, message other students, interact in the public discussion spaces, and even access Edmodo from your mobile phone via their mobile-optimized page to check assignments and more.


There hasn't been any other social network that seems as simple and useful as Edmodo turned out to be. Maybe because of its Facebook like colors and other designs? Or perhaps the simplicity that you can post info up that makes it such a success. But out of all other social networks, this seems like it won't affect your business life at all.