They can be interesting, current resources, but the advertising can be distracting to students and sometimes inappropriate. Using noncommercial sites . Sites organized by such nonprofit institutions as museums, public school systems, and universities vary greatly in quality but many can provide valuable, advertising-free information. Using individuals' sites . Web pages assembled by individuals show that the Internet truly is a place where anything can be published.
Many people post valuable and free resources such as public domain clip art.
Teachers thus must explore each site they intend to use in their WebQuests thoroughly and restrict students to those sites for their projects. Fortunately, with the growing numbers of WebQuests available, individual teachers and students are creating a boundless resource of reliable and safe information. The most appropriate evaluation tool for all of these forms often is a rubric that is used by the teacher and perhaps by other students. The most effective rubrics include a variety of criteria and benchmarks for accomplishment in each category. See the Resource section at the end of this article for Web addresses.