Class+Websites

Sites Devoted to Building Class Websites

If you are a fan of Blackboard, CourseSites is for you! CourseSites is a **__free__**, hosted online course creation and facilitation service that empowers individual K–12 teachers, college and university instructors and community educators to add a web–based component to their courses, or even host an entire course on the Internet. You even choose your own URL, so students can find your page easily. CourseSites is powered by the latest and greatest technology from Blackboard.

PBworks hosts over 300,000 educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers. PBworks encourages student-centered learning. Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents. Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. PBworks encourages staff development and shared resources across schools.


 * Bethel Park School District does have a campus license, offering 1000 user-spaces, administrated by the high school English language arts department. As long as user-spaces are available, BPSD teachers are welcome to create wikis with their students as part of this license. Contact Charles Youngs for details.**

**Moodle** is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses. The software is used all over the world by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers. Moodle is open source and completely free to use.

**Wikispaces** is an attempt to build a wiki that's easy to use and easy to adopt for all kinds of audiences. The tools are simple so that you can focus on building content, talking with other members, and growing your community. Wikispaces gives teachers the freedom to publish pages that are long-lived, regularly updated, and can be built by many contributors. There is enough space to both publish and discuss content, without tangling the two together. Wikispaces is designed to be usable for everyone. It uses a visual editor that lets you see the layout and design of your page while you're editing it. //**No technical knowledge required!**//

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages.Google Sites is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website. You can start a site from scratch or from a template. For a sample, click on the following link: @https://sites.google.com/site/bphswh/