How to set up a website to share learning resources

amrad

Hi there,

I want to set up a website for my students to be able to pool and collaborate resources. Are there any online services as such available?

Ideally I would want it to be as follows:
- I can grant a username and password to certain email addresses
- Anyone with access can upload or download but not delete or modify files on there
- Only admins (me) can delete/modify/organise
- Lots of storage spac (5gb?)

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Conor_3

skydrive.live.com for the storage.

moonraker711

What about making a Sharepoint site. You would be able to set them up with logins and they would be able to download and upload documents with the right permissions.

bob_a_builder

Sounds like a case for Google Docs - take the tour and see if it suits

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richt71

amrad wrote: »

Hi there,

I want to set up a website for my students to be able to pool and collaborate resources. Are there any online services as such available?

Ideally I would want it to be as follows:
- I can grant a username and password to certain email addresses
- Anyone with access can upload or download but not delete or modify files on there
- Only admins (me) can delete/modify/organise
- Lots of storage spac (5gb?)

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

You'll need a script and database for the username and password for email addresses. Not all host are SQL compatable (able to run scripts or databases). Try hostgator.com. I've used them for months with many of my online sites. Hopefully you can find a cheap script that can be installed and do the username/password as programing it could be costly (try elance.com, rentacoder or getafreelancer for programers).

Wombat

There are loads of free scripts to handle logging in to a website with a username and password, e.g.

http://www.refdev.com/free_scripts/PHP/User_Authentication/

http://www.php-scripts.com/php_diary/071300.php3

shimmy-shang

Hi there

A free wiki such as pbwiki or wetpaint sounds exactly what you want. There is a helluva lot of information about using web techology with education out there for instance, just use Google.

Take a look here http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html 160 learning pros have voted on their best web tools.

Good luck!

enemes

Surely it is a simple as setting up a VPN with a web front end ...

amrad

enemes wrote: »

Surely it is a simple as setting up a VPN with a web front end ...

Could you elaborate on how I'd do this? Thanks

TechTerry

What do you mean by:

- I can grant a username and password to certain email addresses

amrad

TechTerry wrote: »

What do you mean by:

- I can grant a username and password to certain email addresses

Basically I want to be able to control who has access to the files? Ideally they would apply for access and if it was an email address of one of the students then i would grant it or similar.