The Functionality of a Website

S.W.O.T analysis
Topic:  The functionality of a website
Strengths A creator claims ownership of a website:  A website remains the way its creator intended it to be designed and cannot be altered or edited by anyone else. The site can look appealing, engaging and have interactive multimodal literacies that the students will want to participate in. Creating my website allowed me to embed videos and links; insert pictures; have background music; an appealing and an engaging colourful design.	Weaknesses The value of the learning is only as good as the appropriate pedagogical learning design by the learning manager.  Unless the website has carefully planned and scaffolded using problem solving tasks, students will not be benefiting from the active higher order thinking processes and only use passive lower processes.
Opportunities The learning manager can create and upload activities they are to complete.  Learning tasks that include problem-solving activities with intended learning outcomes can be carefully scaffolded. Within the activities, the learning manager will have placed links which students will precisely access to locate the information they need for their task. Websites are ideal for students to present their work.	Threats Students may not fully make use of the website properly and make poor use of the computer time allocated. Students may sidetrack onto other websites so learning managers necessarily need to ensure students are on the right track and support them with accomplishing the required task.