Betsy's post, Make a website for your students, led me to recall that the ESL Services at UT use Moodle as their online Blackboard. The website is basically free, but I heard that the ESL Services pay to buy extra space needed for teachers and students to upload and save their files.
Moodle provides useful activity modules such as forums, wikis, announcements, assignment uploading and file exchanging services, calendars, Moodle Doc, and many more, which I believe share several similar features with our UT BlackBoard. If you want to see the layout of the Moodle system, click here. On YouTube, there are many demonstration videos on how Moodle can be used in the classrooms, and this website is being quite widely used around the world. For teachers who are not provided with online Blackboard by their insitutions, this site would be a great online class management system.
Good suggestion, Eunjeong. I like the look of Moodle, it seems a bit "nicer" than Teacher Web Wizard. It's so good to know about these free online resources for future jobs where Blackboard isn't provided!
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