There are a number of tools that can be used to aggregate learning material, collecting and organizing it in one place for student use.
My school system uses Google Classroom. It is a fee based services, but the school system takes care of the fee for me. Google advertises it as free - free for schools that have Google Apps for education, but there is a cost associated with Aps for education. It is easy to give assignments. Google Docs is integrated with Classroom and it has a nice grading feature where it is easy to add comments in students written assignments. Announcements can be made on classroom. Google has also recently added a "Question" feature to make quizzes.
Another tool that I use for aggregating course material is Moodle. I use it for a course I teach online - Environmental Science. Moodle does more than Classroom, but some of its features are not as user friendly. Moodle allows one to easily post files, create assignments, make quizzes, insert learning objects, and make pages. The grading feature is cumbersome for making comments. The quiz feature has lots of nice features for feedback, but quizzes are cumbersome and slow to make.
Wordpress is a free program for creating websites and blogs. Both of these can be useful ways of delivering learning material. This does not have a convenient way to give tests or quizzes, but for content delivery, it will do fine.
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