I'm very happy with how my VLE looks. I think it has a very simplistic layout which I think is very important. I have used sites like Moodle and I think the layout can be very over complicated, and you often have to follow a long path before you can get to the resource you were looking for.
I also like that the students have had some input to the VLE. I think it looks very much like their site, and I think it should be! If you want students to log on and use something frequently then it should at least be appealing to them.
But in practice I don't see this being successful. I am not dismissing the Weebly Educational site I think it's fantastic. Nor am I dismissing all the work I have put into it. I just think that the students need consistency. The rest of the college use Moodle as the VLE, and I don't see any point in creating a separate one for one class. As a student I would find this very frustrating, I would rather everything just be on one site.
I agree with everything you say here, your Weebly site is a fabulously presented website. That said it needs to give more than Moodle for it to have value and purpose. It needs to be the students space really for them to see that it is a different resource not just somewhere else to look for class material. Excellent presentation though!
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