Red and black are never recommended. Remember Marshall McLuhan's work about hot and cold colours. For example, a dark green or blue background with white text can be attractive. Some really hot colours such as florescent pink, will tend to give a 3-D effect. When students want to see dazzle, they won't be visiting their teachers' pages.
Simple pages are clean, efficient, and quick to load.
On your TOC page, cursor below the title and Left Justify. On the Format toolbar, click the Bulleted List button. Each of the sentences now has a bullet in front of it, and a hanging indent. To move the list to the right, click the Increase Indent button. Numbered lists are more difficult to use.