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| moodlecloud offers a free service along with paid plans |
Despite my retirement from active teaching, I remain interested in education and am engaged in intermittent mathematics tutoring. I'm always on the lookout for ways to extend the tutoring session beyond the hour or so that I spend face-to-face with my student. To this end, I've made use of moodlecloud that provides a free service as well as paid options. Having so far only one student at any given time, I've found that the free service is quite adequate. Even though only 250 MB of storage is available, I've only used a small fraction.
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| The free service is adequate for those with a small number of students |
Of course, it means that you can't upload large video files but you can link to them and that's enough. The free option is an excellent choice for people who work with only a small number of students.
When I was teaching full-time, I used the school-based Moodle installation most of the time but I did dabble with Edmodo and I still have an account. I recently archived my old courses and even posted to the Mathematics Forum. I may begin to experiment with it again. The site has an app that enables access via smartphone or tablet, so that's useful.
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| My Edmodo profile |
I've also been experimenting with a site called Versal, that amongst other things offers an excellent tool for rendering mathematical expressions.
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| An example of the rendering of mathematical expressions |
Of course, there's a hundreds of similar sites out there but these are three that I am using or have used, and they are all free. While writing this I was reminded of an excellent educational blog that I used to reference but haven't done so since leaving teaching. Here is the link.
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