Make lesson resources available to Adult Education students..

[pete]

We've been providing Adult Ed for a fair while now and we're pondering the best way to make resources (upcoming lesson topics, homework, resources, etc) available to students online.

 

Considerations are:

 

• People will often sign up to a course on the night of the first lesson - we don't necessarily have a list of who needs access
  
• Courses could be anywhere from 1 - 10 weekly sessions.
  
• Tutors will need to update / add materials as the course progresses
  
• Tutors and students will have highly variable IT skills. Student age ranges are ~20-ish to 90-ish.
  
• It's hard to get hold of tutors - many work full time in addition to Adult Ed.
  
• There's no realtime IT support for Adult Ed - we've all gone home by then, so it needs to be foolproof.
  
• It can't be burdensome to maintain for us (IT) or the people running Adult Ed.
  
• Content should not be available to people who haven't paid for the course (so no just making it available on the school website)
  

 

My initial thought is something where authenticated tutors can upload documents and generate a unique URLs for each student that expire X days after the course finishes. They could still pass the URL on to someone, but there's a limited time window (and they're more likely to pass on downloaded documents by email anyway).

 

Any ideas?