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Asalaamu alaikum, I just wanted to pass along something useful for anyone out there who might be involved in teaching courses or teaching in a Sunday school madressa or running one. Right now there is a free open online course for learning how to teach with Moodle. Moodle is a free (as in root beer) online content management system for learning, also known as a learning management system, or LMS for short. https://moodle.org/ It's an open source online pla tform for delivering online courses, or as an online companion platform for a classroom course. You can do stuff like post readings, have text instruction pages, images, embedded videos, embedded audio, quizzes, discussion forums, poll questions, wikis, links to external sites, all kinds of stuff, with logins and accounts for each student and tracking of quizzes and marks, etc. The platform delivers through the browser, so it works across a range of OS platforms, both desktop and mobile. The screen presentation is even adaptive to the type of device, rearranging the layout, so courses can be viewed on desktop, tablet, smartphone. It's used by some universities and secondary schools, so it's possible some of you have already experienced it from the learner end. Really cool tool, very easy to use from what I've seen so far. It's designed with teachers in mind, making it easy for them to go online. The online course is good, and is delivered through the Moodle platform, so you can kind of see how it works as you go. The course is four weeks, and the second week is already in progress, so you'd want to hurry if you're interested. The first week was all introduction and basics, so you haven't missed any assignments or group activities yet. The website to access the course is here: http://learn.moodle.net/ Sign up for an account and you're done! Enjoy!