Websites for uploading homework

chippers wrote: »

I'm trying to incorporate the use of computers more with my class groups this year. I'll be teaching geography and history.

Have any teachers here created a website with which your students can upload their homework and which you can put up material for the students to read and look at? If so was it well received / successful?

Do you know of any sites that would be useful to help me set up such a website? I'm not particularly great with computers so any user friendly websites would be best.

I made a google sites website for each of my classes. I just watched a youtube video on how to create one. VERY easy to do. I used it to post homework and posted links to relevent videos and website. The kids LOVED it. The sixth years gave me great feedback. They used it all the time for revision. Was a much greater success than I was expecting.

think i'll taking this great advice on board too
thanks !!

spurious wrote: »

We use Moodle for this. It's fantastic.

Agreed. Moodle is the best system I've used. Unfortunatly the school I work in doesn't have anybody with enough IT skills to maintain it. There are companies that will look after it for you but there doesn't seem to be the appetite for it in my school.

moodle all the way and easy to maintain (i.e. no maintenance)

Moodle is the best option but understand where you are coming from getting more staff involved. Have a look at http://icsgrid.ie which is trying to get moodle expanded in schools. I have no experience with them but seems like the way forward where schools don't have someone to install moodle and 'run the show' as such. They have some info sessions coming up which could be useful. Could you try and get management in your school involved?

Edmondo has no costs, no hosting costs, no admin hassles, and no upload limits. Why bother with moodle?

Moodle is very outdated and I wouldn't be a fan.

All my notes are now on Edmodo.

I don't really use it in an interactive way, more or a database for my students where I can put up notes and then home works/revisions sheets and some reminders

Schoology is actually a great site/app. A few of us in school were using Edmodo and we have all switched to Schoology. It's much more interactive and a lot more features.

Still sitting on the fence a bit with regards to Edmodo/Schoology in terms of my leaving cert cycle classes. Much of a muchness but I think I'm drawn to the latter due to the ease of making use of other teachers resources. And it just looks a bit more fluid than the quite blocky graphics of Edmodo.

But I'm having something of a U-turn with regards to the Junior Cert classes for a couple of reasons. I don't really see my JC students going to a website and downloading notes in the form of powerpoints etc. Note taking for the junior cert cycle isn't particularly intensive in the first place, and I'm starting to feel what little there is, is better taken down by the students own hand into their own notes copy. A large number of younger students would I feel struggle with demands of organising and maintaining notes in folders or any other way. So without actually laying and supplying the course and its notes on line it takes the issue over lack of control over student access to the material out of the equation. Which brings me back to my weebly page. There's a somewhat lazy line trotted out IMO, 'kids love technology'. I don't think they do. They love COD or football manager. Or Youtube or snapchat. They won't necessarily be drawn to coursework because it's provided online.

Well when I described it as "site of some beauty", the tongue was secured firmly in cheek but here she is for your professional critique. sciencejc.weebly.com Be gentle. It's a light-hearted, maybe even a bit of 'childish' effort but I hoped for something more welcoming for the eyes of the younger students. I'm not sure how it works from a student navigation point of view. It's intuitive enough for a science teacher the sections arranged as they are by the syllabus but thats actually missing the point from the students end. I will have to do a revamp on it anyway for the new syllabus, but perhaps I ought to arrange it into more a Biology Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Chemistry Year 1 etc, format?
Site function? A fair question...limited! In a school where my classes currently don't have any access at the moment to computer rooms, nevermind ipads etc so er... differentiation? I know the majority of students will have access either at home, or via phones, or their own ipads, or possibly even via libraries but I'll always have some (not to be cynical but its never the hardest workers) who will deny it...and their reasons are largely plausible. Allow higher order students access more resources such as relevant videos, quizzes, simulations etc. I can use the website in-class as a convenient source of files too, but it doesn't warrant the site itself as I can supply my resources by other means; in saying all that, I like that I have it! Its still light content-wise, and I'd hope to build on that, and have the students themselves providing content would I feel get their interest piqued.

Sorry I've babbled, and this is probably TLDR for most. Needs editing much like my site.