This makes it easy for a faculty member to contact all members of a class, or for students to exchange ideas out of class. Lists lend themselves especially well to time-sensitive communications like students distributing discussion questions in advance of class. Discussion forums Like lists, forums allow a single message to be viewed by many. Project folders Folders help students and faculty working in a course or on a common project to share files. Faculty can make datasets available to which only students in a class have access.
Students can leave materials they share with group members.
It is like having a group study space with filing cabinets to which only members of the group or course have keys. Course Web Sites Course web sites can be very simple or very complex depending on the needs and interests of the faculty member. They can offer on-line versions of the syllabus, provide links to readings, and journals available on line, a link to the class discussion forums, a space where students share work or a space to collaborate with students and faculty at other institutions. You can choose to only use those tools you find useful. In fact, the discussion forum tool discussed above is a piece of blackboard.