It saves paper. Assignments can be accessed from many locations. Assignments can be accessed by many people, like other teachers, parents, students at home or on the road, substitutes, or administrators. Assignments can be repurposed easily in multiple ways. Assignments will attract the attention of other educators with similar interests.
Assignments only have to be produced once.
If educators collaborate, a large pool of shared assignments can be built with a minimum of effort by each individual. Through HTML coding and other direct methods of creating web pages, educators can build a variety of web pages. This methods does require an investment of about forty hours of reading, instruction, and practice before serious creation can begin. It also requires that the educator has access to a web server where their work can be stored. Through online templates, educators can start to build and share curriculum materials almost immediately.