online education (fronter)

There are online services which schools can subscrbibe to that the pupils and teachers can log in to. These websites are called VLEs ( virtual learning environments) These services generally provide a closed message system for students and teachers to message each other without having to use an actual email service. This is useful as students can send work to be marked to the appropriate tacher without having to spend a lot of time printing out. The teacher can send a marked copy of the work back to the student in a short amount of time. The message service being closed means that people can only message people in their school. This is useful as it means that students will not waste time messaging their friends.
There is also normally a system that lets students upload files to the site so that they can be downloaded and worked on anywhere. This is useful to get files from school to home and vice versa. A problem that sometimes occurs with this is that there is a limit on file size. This is not a problem for normal documents, but it can prevent movie files or projects with a lot of pictures from being uploaded. This makes it difficult to show teachers what you have done.

An example of this type of website is fronter.

Fronter contains the aforementioned message feature and the ability to upload files.

Fronter also contains a series of pages called "rooms". Each "room" is named after a class or subject and the information in those "rooms" relates to that subject. There are often work sheets or files that can be downloaded in each "room". This is very useful because if a person misses a lesson they can download any relevant information and catch up wiyjout to much difficulty. The main problem with this is that if the teacher forgets to upload the necessary work or the student can not connect to the internet the student not being able to receive the work and could fall behind.