Janet Allen , David Rosen , and Farrokh Mistree recognized that CaMILE also served the needs of their students doing collaborative design. Undergraduates Jason Higginbotham, Eric Witham, and Richard Hamm who helped run the course, create materials, and gather evaluation data. The student has annotated the note with a QuickTime movie and a Microsoft Word document. Before a student can enter a note into the CaMILE NoteBase, the student must identify the type of note to be written. The core of CaMILE is a collaborative NoteBase where students can post multimedia notes in group discussions.
Notes are mostly text but include multimedia annotations in the margin.
The NoteBase provides a structure for the notes such that each new note is a response to something already said in a discussion. When a student reading through a discussion finds a note that she wishes to respond to, she may create a new note that she must specifically identify as a Question, a Comment, a Rebuttal, an Alternative, or so on. Her new note may refer to a wide variety of multimedia resources. Along with the NoteBase, CaMILE provides several resource collections which students can review for more information on a topic or to gather evidence for a note to add to a discussion. Students can explore the MediaBase along paths to find related media on a topic.