Getting Web Space Toolbox Mailing Lists and Forums Forums and mailing lists are easy additions to your static web materials. Both of them allow you to communicate with your students and, more importantly, allow your students to communicate with one another. If you aren't familiar with the concept, a mailing list provides one address to which you and your students send mail to have it distributed automatically to the rest. Web archives allow students to see past messages and give you an archival record of participation.
Forums are web-based bulletin boards.
You control who can access the forums and forum topics. No extra mail in your email inbox, and a nice way to have class discussions outside of the classroom. Messages can have attachments of documents, images, and any other computer file.