It’s important for school webpages to also be kept uniform and polished. Many teachers are excellent with kids but don’t have the editorial skills needed to keep a website rolling along. And, why should they? This is a job within itself. If they are going to become web masters, why are they teachers? Perhaps, a better way to design a participation method would be to require teachers to submit a “news brief” about one paragraph long to keep parents informed of what’s going on in each classroom during the week? One paragraph from each classroom every week is less work and it would be easier to maintain. Teachers could also take pictures of the student’s artwork or post their latest creative writing assignment. This would motivate parents to visit web pages! This section on the website could be called something like—The Latest Thing or From Our Classrooms or Student Of The Week. Let the school district hire a “web designer” or give a part-time teacher the responsibility of maintaining webpages, if she has the editorial skill and needs the extra income. If the church owns the school, they can roll over the fees for that website into the fees also for their own church website.

There is now web software that schools can “rent.” Teachers use it to fill out standard homework assignments and report grades. Our children’s Christian school uses this kind of software in order to save TIME and industry. Our software is not generally accessible to the public and not attached to their school’s website at all.

Great ideas, Neil!

Even if a teacher decides to create their own website, it doesn’t have to take much time at all. A teacher can create a website in just a few minutes with something like our NE1 Web Builder.

The other thing to note is that if a teacher updates their web page with valuable information like homework assignments, it can be a net time saver because parents won’t have to email and call for that information.