Building my online classroom
- 09/04/13
- Comments: 5
I have been working actively on designing the online classroom for my new spring design course. There are many services that offer hosted classrooms (my favorite one is Lore). One problem that I have with many LMS (learning management systems) is that the interface is busy, ugly and confusing or it can not be customized as much as I want. So I ventured to design the classroom myself using WordPress and different plugins.
It is very clean, minimalistic and metro-inspired design. The idea is to make the learning content the main focus of attention (basically taking as much as possible of the browser screen), while navigation is easy and is out of the way (slim icon menu on the left). The front page offers yet another way to quickly navigate content (touch screen friendly). Of course the website is responsive.
Hopefully students will like it too! It will probably improve once I start getting feedback from users. To be continued!
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- 09/04/13
- Comments: 5
- Tags: learning, lms, online class
5 Comments
Would love to hear what plugins you utilized to create this. Stepping into the eLearning world, too and haven’t found quite what I want with LMS either.
I am using BBpress and BudyPress to handle discussions and user profiles, and the rest is styling of WordPress and blog posts. And you need some membership plugin to make the website private.
I didn’t know you also designed the classroom! I liked it a lot and I think it is very intuitive and not overwhelming.
You know where to find the materials and the informations and it is easy to use.
Love it!
Nicely done! It looks great!
The learning environment was excellent (As was the class!). Did you create a custom theme or is it something off the shelves?
I am using a free membership plugin for my classes but I am not very fond of it… any suggestion? I particularly like the fact that we could sign-in very easily and upload our work!