Using Virtual Courses (Plattforms)

Do you know what a virtual platform is? Have you ever used virtual courses with your students?. Well, a virtual course is a webpage that allows you to create assignments, forums, chatting, uploading files, creating tests, and others. Nowadays many schools and universities around the world have implemented virtual courses in their curriculums and according to educational experts, this have become into a powerful and successful tool for teaching.
Not going too far, this year in my school, teachers started to work with virtual courses and they found interesting results. At the beginning there was some rejection for using them from teachers as well as students. Teachers said it was time-consuming and difficult to create things or upload documents while students said it was boring. But, this changed when teachers as well as students , little by little were getting used to use the platform and found out that is easy and fast to use it once you are familiar with the options and links it includes , you don’t use paper , you can check your grade and receive feedback while your are at home, you can work on many projects and save it in a personal platform database and others.
So, if you haven’t worked with virtual courses and you have the opportunity to implement it with your students, don’t think too much and tried it, you and your students would love it.

by Hugo Velasco