In 'My apps', the school administrator has the ability to activate and assign widgets. Widgets can be seen as small but powerful digital helpers in the school day, contributing to increasing the usefulness of all the school's digital tools and learning materials.

Widgets can help pupils and teachers more easily access information contained within digital tools, but now directly and clearly within their apps in Skolon. This could, for example, be quick information about the most important or latest news from a tool, such as a user having been assigned a task in Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams, or alternatively seeing the latest news headlines from Svenska Dagbladet. Widgets can also display significant historical events linked to the current date.

In summary, widgets provide a clear overview of useful information from digital tools, while also creating quick shortcuts to access the tools themselves. This allows the user to work even smarter with all their digital tools, clearly visible directly in their apps – all gathered in one place.

Administrators in Skolon can find all available widgets in our Widget Library from Skoladmin within the platform. If your organisation hasn't assigned any widgets yet, we have a few recommendations.

For everyone

Svenska Dagbladet - Get the latest news updates directly from Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden's largest morning newspapers.

BBC - Get the latest world news in English directly from the BBC.

Wikipedia Today - Displays significant events that have occurred on today's date throughout history.

Focus Sounds - Waves, white noise, or wind? This widget contains various background sounds to increase concentration, enable better focus, and promote a calm study environment.

For Microsoft users

Microsoft Tools - This widget allows you to access the various Microsoft 365 services with a single click directly from your apps, for example, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, and Outlook.

Microsoft Teams - This widget retrieves the pupil's assignments from Microsoft Teams and displays them in chronological order within 'My apps'. With a simple click on the assignment title, a box appears within Skolon where the pupil can see the entire assignment.

Psst.. For schools with Skolon AI, the widget becomes even more powerful with two features that can explain the assignment in a different way and help the pupil get started.

For Google users

Google Tools - This widget allows you to access the various Google services with a single click directly from your apps, for example, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Gmail, and Drive.

Google Classroom - This widget retrieves the pupil's assignments from Google Classroom and displays them in chronological order within 'My apps'. With a simple click on the assignment title, a box appears within Skolon where the pupil can see the entire assignment.

Psst.. For schools with Skolon AI, the widget becomes even more powerful with two features that can explain the assignment in a different way and help the pupil get started.