My primary focus for this project was to create a user-friendly classroom website to maintain ongoing communication with parents. The parent population that I work with prefers communicating by email and therefore I thought a website would be a great way for them to stay informed about what’s happening in the classroom. The Bellevue School District uses SharePoint as the web application for teacher websites, so I logged in and began exploring. I quickly realized that SharePoint has some great features but also some limitations. It was easy to use to upload documents, post announcements, and create a calendar of events. However, it took me a while to figure out how to add another list of links. When it came to organizing the web parts on the main page, it was not simple and straight forward. I had to play around with it for a while before I created a design I was happy with. One nice feature about using SharePoint to create my webpage is that parents don’t have to see any ads and they are required to log in.
Only parents and student in the Bellevue School District can view my webpage.
Using SharePoint to create a website was simple and easy to use. In the future I see myself creating a website through a different source that offers more flexibility in terms of what I can add and modify. SharePoint was somewhat limiting in that I’ve only been able to add pictures and videos as attachments under folders. Ideally, I would like to be able to add picture slides and short videos to the main page.
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