Educational institutions who use write-out-loud articles and printables
By: Susan Dugdale
Material from write-out-loud.com is frequently used by educational institutions of all sorts: elementary schools, high schools, community colleges, universities, technical institutes, online learning platforms...
They are in countries all over the world: USA, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Singapore, United Kingdom, Ukraine...
Out of curiosity to see exactly where all the schools were and what pages they referred their students to, I began collecting their links as I found them in one of the web analytics tools I use to help me understand more about how people use the site.
The result is below. These are the links I've found over the period March 2024 - January 2025.
The screenshot comes from Statcounter.
It's a delight, and a little humbling, to see them all.
I can't imagine how long the list would be if I'd started it when I began the site - 18 years ago! Or how long the page would become if I systematically checked for links and updated it regularly.
Today, (01-08-25), there are 105 and I have almost as many again to process before I can add them.
The vast majority of these backlinks are inside in-house courses that have been put together exclusively for an institution's enrolled students using an e-learning platform like moodle, blackboard, canvas, schoology or brightspace.
Although I can see the pages being linked to in my analytics, I am unable to see how they're being used because I don't have the necessary login credentials.
Here are two examples from the screenshot above:
I've arranged these in alphabetical order.* The page(s) linked to come after the school's name.
*Mostly! I began ordering them like that. The first 27 follow that pattern, and then I posted them in the order I found them.
Some of the online learning resource sites linking to write-out-loud.com refer to multiple pages, in a few instances 10 or more. Rather than list all of them, I've shown the first 3 pages, and then specified the remaining number.
Where a page is linked to by more than one article on a particular site, I've given the keyword phrase in its url and appended the number of times it's been referenced. E.g. public-speaking-exercises x 4.