WordPress is amazing for our schools and sports clubs. With the right setup, students, teams or classes can safely post their achievements online in a safe and structured manner. Teachers and students can run their own news website with private or public classroom areas, forums, galleries etc. Sports teams have areas to track games and player profiles too, uploading results, images or videos via iPhone.
Add in calendars, absence forms, event bookings, online payments, even a school-branded mobile app for instant, low cost broadcast alerts to students or their parents.
We’ll also view a new LMS (learning management) plugin that allows teachers to create online courses with videos, quizzes etc, with each student tracked and rewarded. Previously these tools resided at Universities. Now affordable e-learning is here for mainstream schools and educators. WordPress lets schools quickly build a dynamic publishing and education-focused channel for students and their local community. Incredible.
