Hi All:
As you know - NING went to a paid platform. There was an offer to have NINGs for free on the mini-plan but they were sponsored by Pearson so you would have to deal with Pearson ads and so forth.
I went on line and just bought a mini-plan for us, so we can put our own ads on if we want and not have to deal with that.
The only feature we will lose, which is unfortunate, is the events feature, but we can modify and post event information in the forum or perhaps create a Google calendar we can link to if we want.
Hope to see you all soon. Best wishes for a smooth start to the school year.