confusedteacher

Thanks! There is a new option on the scene now... eschools. I've never heard of it but have been doing a bit of research online and it seems to have some attractive sounding features. Think google docs still offers something very easy to use and very accessible. Any thoughts on eschools?

I'm quite excited about using Google Docs now. It's going to make a big difference! Thank you all for your contributions and advice.

Thanks for your replies! I've watched the youtube video about google docs and like how it appears to work - especially that it appears that you can give immedate feedback on documents. I'm working my way through the other suggestions. There is almost too much choice! I'm wondering about google docs... on the youtube viedo example it showed the guy logging onto a university account. Can anybody tell me how I'd go about setting up a similar 'virtual school' account which I could log onto as well as students, other teachers and parents? Slowly starting to see how things like this could massively enhance the learning of these students! Thanks again.

Hello, I hope I'm OK posting here. I'm a teacher, not an IT professional. I really need some advice about which VLE to use. I teach in a slightly different way though... I teach pupils indivdually on the phone. For various reasons these children can't access school in a 'normal' way so at the moment they have daily 1:1 lessons on the phone with me. I then set them tasks to do for homework which normally involved using books, sheets etc from a pack of books, textbooks and resources that they have been sent. What I'd like is to be able to put work for them on the VLE (probably saved as documents they can download, put their work/answers/essays/whatever on then save it on the VLE so I can access it, mark it and resave it so they can get feedback. I don't know much about VLEs at all. I've had some expereince with Kaleidos which I liked but apart from that I don't know anything! Someone has suggested Moodle but I think you need some IT know-how to manage this. I think you can do video calls on Moodle as well, so there's the potential that I'd be able to see my students during lessons which would be good! So I'd appreciate any advice that you can offer on which VLE might suit my students and I the best! I'm not particularly tech-savvy but am willing to learn what I need to to make a VLE work for us! Thank you