Students and staff can communicate via live text chat to discuss a project that they may be working on. Engage in electronic conferencing with other users. Some of the following applications may be useful to you in delivering your courses. Collective Databases - Use conferencing to allow students to build collective databases such as a glossary of terms, bibliographies, and references. One advantage is that this gives them a sense of ownership and responsibility for the content.
Students can post questions to be discussed in class.
Students can then access their personal files from anywhere, from any networked computer at home or on campus. Peer Reviews - Provide conferences where students can share, review, and critique each other's papers. Make part of the critiques a written class assignment. This allows access to messages and files on a need only basis. Public File Server - Personal mailboxes, in addition to folders and conferences, can be used like a file server for storing computer files and messages.