Create a Weebly Education Account

Task 1 - Getting Started

Create a Weebly Educator account at http://education.weebly.com/
  • Create your username and password (write this down!)
  • select a name for your website
  • pick a website URL (ex. mrhard.weebly.com)
(Note: A URL name should be kept short and easy to remember)  

Ready for a little more? Try one of the activities below.

Edit the homepage of your weebly site
  • Explore and pick a theme
  • Add a text box and Write an introductory statement
  • Add a photo of yourself or reflective of your class

Weebly for Educators - Building an online classroom presence

Learning Objectives

  • Know how to use the major features of Weebly to design a classroom website
  • Understand some of the essential elements of a classroom website
  • Begin creating informational and instructional elements for your classroom website

Quick Check

Task 2 - Planning Ahead

What are the essential elements of a good classroom website or blog?

With a partner 
  • Brainstorm any essential elements
  • Categorize these elements into "big ideas"
  • Be prepared to share

Our Essential Elements of a Classroom Website Word Cloud

Task 3 - Adding Pages and Subpages

  • Create a page(s) for your classroom based on the "big ideas" from our essential elements
    • Homework
    • Projects
    • Classroom resources
    • Classroom News (blog)

Challenge:
  • Make a subpage that further refines one of the pages you already have

Task 4 - Resources for the classroom

  • Add a link to an external educational website that you regularly ask students to use.
  • Add a link to a video resource you would like students to watch

Challenge:

Task 5 - Upload a file

  • Add the upload a file widget
  • Find a file on the computer you are using to upload
    • image
    • song
    • document

Challenge:
  • Add a file you have saved on a flash drive or from a cloud storage like dropbox

Task 6 - Student Assignment Submission

  • Add a student assignment submission form
    • use edit form to delete the e-mail requirement

Challenge:
  • Edit the student assignment form to create a quick quiz or quick write exit ticket