Free teacher-friendly website creation

To get your feet wet, try delivering your instruction on a wiki page. Taking a standard lesson, perhaps a text, an image, or even a slideshow, deliver these along with questions or activity instructions. As you gain confidence in gaining your wiki skills, you'll ready yourself to teach students how to edit their own pages and submit work. It does take time (a few hours) to set up student accounts, especially if students don't have email access at school; but I found that it was a time-saving flexible way to prepare class activities, provided your students have computer access. There is an online manual for educators and I have always found the PBWorks support staff to be very friendly responsive. Most importantly, my students gain essential digital literacy skills from the experience of working in the wiki environment of designing pages, formatting and organizing files, and submitting documents online.

I test-drove PBworks in a college class to see if I would like to apply it to my high school classes. My review could be a result of the professor setting up the class, but after reading additional reviews I feel that the flaws are the fault of the platform itself. The idea was to have a collaborative wiki space where class members could meet, exchange assignment, collaborate, and store files online. It started okay. But as the class progressed it became cumbersome to navigate. We also ran into problems with permissions and some students were allowed to save to the website while others were restricted. The plan was good. Implementation was poor.

Excellent functionality for price (i.e, used free version); there is a learning curve involved, and teaching members to use this wiki would need to be considered in planning its use.