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Improve communication with your students
Chat
- Hold Have real-time, unstructured conversations
- Create an Hold "Online Office Hours" chat room for student questions and answers.
Announcements
- Announce a change in time or location
- Post documents that have had errors corrected
Mailtool
- Send a student, group of students, class section, or your TAs, private or public messages.
- Collect all last minute changes
- Send reminders about upcoming events, tests, readings, etc.
Mailtool
- Easily contact site members and groups without entering an email address
- Send private or public messages
Email Archive
- Collect and view course related emails without searching your in box
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- Contact all site participants with one emailView and collect messages sent to your site's unique address
- Send large files attachments to your site and provide a link to site memberswithout clogging email accounts
Encourage collaboration among students
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- Easily change and create web pages
- Create Wikipedia-like entries for course terms and topics
- Have students collaborate on writing assignments
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Forums
- Create an unlimited number of discussion forums for your course
- Continue class discussions online
- Build an answer base; keep useful discussions for reference by "answerbase" for future students
Share materials with students, TAs and colleagues
Resources
- Share materials securely with members of your siteSecurely share course materials
- Upload files like word processing documents, spreadsheets, slide presentations, and videos
- Create and post HTML (web) pages and simple text documents
- Share links to useful web sites.
- Use folders to organize your class materials by topic, lecture date, section, etc.
- Control who can access and add to different folders
- Set a start and/or end time to show or hide materialsrelease and hide study guides
- Post weekly readings
- Archive important documents like exams without showing them to students
Web Content
- Display an important website within List web links in your worksite's menubar.
- Provide prominent links to your department, personal homepage, research group and other frequently referenced websitesetc.
Automate processes and reduce paperwork
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