Apps to complement courses offered by Teams

We know Teams is the solution to Digital Office from Microsoft. But we also know that its video tool is widely used for conferences, which includes recording online classes. So it's no surprise that many of us use Teams to deliver courses remotely.

Despite its popularity, I've always found Teams to have some weaknesses for this use. One of the central points for me is the absence of a good evaluation tool. Fortunately, this point is now completely solved with the use of Akindi. This is my post on how I apply my objective tests with the help of this tool.

The other tricky issue for is that Teams doesn't have a good notification center . With that in mind, I started to organize my courses with the help of Ghost, so it was possible to create a kind of newsletter for students. My courses then started to look like this:

Although it was an advance to adopt this layout, I ended up concluding that I wouldn't need to keep a Ghost just to have a newsletter. This could be done more easily with something in the style of Revue or the Substack . These solutions for messaging a community are really worth a look at as they can be a good addition to Teams.

It's just that these solutions, in addition to being used to send emails, are great for organizing subscribers, which is something that Teams never intended to do. In my specific case, even if the students were registered in Teams, often the registered email was not the most used by them. Because of this, it was very important to create a management tool that would serve the creation of the email list with the current preference addresses of the students.

Taking this into account, I ended up opting for the Sendfox . It is the newsletter solution of the AppSumo Originals , which is a line of products with great free plans or with cost-effective options. In addition, AppSumo itself solves Sendfox's main limitation, which is that the Landing page For email list promotion is not very customizable. The solution to this is called Sleekbio and is also a free offer from the same company.

In fact, Sleekbio was created so that you have a personal page, not one Landing page business, which is why you are expected to have only one address and to connect it with your social networks. Despite this, nothing prevents the creation of new accounts on Sleekbio , taking advantage of their excellent platform to create pages that are not just an address for your bio. Its integration with AppSumo's tools is completely transparent and makes a great impression.

In short, I need a solution to apply objective tests ( Akindi ). I also need a solution for managing emails and notifications ( Sendfox ). Finally, I need all of this to be integrated into a single address, a kind of landing page ( Sleekbio ).

The downside is that these tools, because they are commercial, do not allow me to have a customized web address. However, this is not so important for my use and I prefer to know that I can count on these services for free or at a very friendly price, in which case I decide to get the most out of each of them. Today the free plans suit me and I think they can suit you too.