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Setting up a school website for teachers and parents

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by debuggist

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Plenty of you in the TechRepublic community probably have children in school, and these schools have internet presences of varying quality.

Schools often set them up with links to all the faculty's mailboxes. Some even have areas dedicated for teachers to post homework or other helpful links. However, I've seen plenty of outdated pages to convince me that these sites are too hard to use or too inconvenient for school faculty to keep updated.

Does anyone have suggestions for a web publishing platform that is free or cheap, does not require knowledge of HTML and runs on Linux or Windows with or without a database?

Wikis immediately come to mind, but are there other alternatives?

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by tig2

Accessible Wizards is the approach that Illinois has implemented. Take a look at it here: http://www.accessiblewizards.uiuc.edu/

My nephew's school has a web presence but it is highly dependent on the teacher to update areas such as class specific information (homework, class projects, etc) while the administrative staff maintains the more general information. Updates are spotty, not because of kludgy tools but a lack of time. I can see why Accessible Wizard is the tool that University of Illinois chose- it plugs into Office and provides ease of publishing from Word, Powerpoint, etc. This way the information can be formatted in a familiar tool and printed, stored, and published from a single tool.

As long as a person has knowledge of MS Office, they can publish. No HTML required.

Is this what you were looking for?

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