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New Post has been published on http://www.freakyphysics.com/2013/04/using-atutor-my-own-online-physics-class/

Using ATutor: My Own Online Physics Class

2008. I was having trouble with keeping up with classes. The reason: every teacher’s chronic request – more time. At that time, I was teaching secondary General Science. So I decided that I need a blog. The blog was about General Science, tailored to what I wanted to cover in order to catch up with lessons.

A few months later, I needed better functionality than what a free blog could give. So I decided to buy a web domain. Same deal, but with more interactivity. I felt it was going somewhere. And so the idea grew in my head, that web-based content would be very useful in teaching.

Now, a few years after starting the website, I have decided to take a new direction. I have bought a new domain, and this time I have full control of the site. Doing this felt good, as I have installed ATutor into the site.

ATutor is a learning management platform for the web, and I have been playing around and tweaking with it to get familiar with how it works. So far, it has allowed me to give the proper content to the students, both in General Science and Physics. Though a bit intimidating at first, ATutor is easy to use once you get the hang of things.

There are other learning platforms out there in the Internet, so don’t take my word for it. I have tried two other learning platforms, and they were great in their own regard. In my experience, ATutor has the easiest install and setup of all the ones I tried. Problems also arose, and this is where ATutor shone more than the others. Google searches for solutions had excellent content, and had, as of this writing, a 100% success rate in fixing issues.

And the best part? It’s open-source software, so it’s free to download and use!