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!