Below is a main list of features which gives you an idea of what you can do here at Class Blogs. However, there is no limit to what type of class blog or resource blog you and your students can create. The greatest thing about education and learning is creativity.
- Class Blogs – Teachers and students can create blogs to help facilitate classroom learning or the blog can be an extension of the classroom conversation.
- Learning Logs – Learning logs are sites created by teachers for the purpose of creating online assignments for students. Students can then answer the questions and submit the assignments once they are completed.
- Learning Management System (LMS) – Teachers can create a blog and use it as a learning management system. Teachers can post online courses and students can submit their assignments (through blog posts) for the course online as well. These assignments can be viewed by the instructor, the instructor can submit feedback, and the instructor can grade the student’s assignment online. Both the teacher and his/her students must have blogs in order to create a successful LMS.
- Electronic Portfolio (E-Portfolio) – An e-portfolio is a valuable learning and assessment tool which includes but is not limited to a collection of resources and accomplishments that represent the individual. Moreover, it is the author’s personal reflection on the work included in the e-portfolio that creates a meaningful learning experience.
- Web Conferencing/Virtual Classroom – Teachers/professors have the ability to create meeting rooms or virtual classrooms from the backend of their site. You can upload your presentations, chat with students, public/private chat, webcam, and even share your desktop.
- Robust privacy
- Create unlimited free class blogs/student journals
- Create unlimited free classes/courses
- Create unlimited free virtual classrooms
- Online gradebook
- SMS subscription
- Create assignments
- Give online tests, quizzes, exams through virtual classroom
- Message boards
- 2GB of storage space
- Unlimited themes
- Unlimited Plugins
- Fast response time
- Free domain mapping
- Upload images, video, audio, and documents
- Custom CSS
- Free of advertisements
- A free @classblogs.us email
- Campus+
- One of the two best solutions for districts, schools, and universities to offer campus wide class blogs for teachers, administrators, and students.
- Unlimited blogs
- Unlimited storage
- Host your campus site on your own domain (i.e. blogs.csuniv.edu).
- Super Admin can control every aspect of the campus site and the ability to add other super admins.
- Roll your own LMS campus wide so that your teachers can create courses, grade assignments, setup course schedule, bibliographies, and more.
- Upload and update plugins, themes
- Upload and use your own designs and plugins to extend your campus site’s capabilities.
Check out these sample sites to get a feel of what you can do at Class Blogs.
Teacher: http://teacher.classblogs.us/
Student: http://student.classblogs.us