My school has an amazing VLE (Frog)
I mainly use the Assignment Manager feature to set homework.
It's great! You can issue a set and due date, it will send it directly to your students, you can up load any resources needed and parents can log in and see what their offspring are up to.
It's a fantastic way of setting listening homework, too.
It also saves a lot of paper and photocopying and therefore money!
Students can indicate when they have completed the task and can email their work directly to their teacher, so there are almost no "I left it on the bus" or "my dog ate it"s anymore.
One problem I've noticed though, is that if you have a text to translate, or a reading comprehension and you post a word document, there is nothing to stop the students copying and pasting this into an online translator.
So what I have started doing is using the Snipping Tool in Windows accessories to take screenshots of any texts I include in my students' assignments.
If you haven't used Snipping Tool before I recommend it. It's good fun and you can also use the Free Form feature to cut around things on your screen.
You can paste the images straight into a document and also save the snips as png, gif, jpeg or html files.
It won't stop everyone using google translate, there will always be one student, but it will make it an incredibly tedious task.
It'll be easier for them to just do the work!
Enjoy.
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