A private, top-level calendar shows all appointments for each user. Allows teachers to upload homework assignments. Students complete the work and upload their answers. The application's community areas provide collaboration tools, including group calendars, Chat rooms, and shared files. These tools enable students to work together on projects or in study groups.
Students can upload completed assignments or projects for grading.
And, with group announcements, direct e-mail, and online book lists, lecture notes, and homework listings, students have no excuse for missed work. All of these features can be customized and managed from a personal workspace, by choosing the tools and layout for individual pages. A user can remove unwanted tools from a workspace, or re-add them as necessary. Students and teachers may add personal items to the workspace calendar, thus ensuring extra-curricular activities do not interfere with classes, study groups, or homework. To launch the Web site, Sloan required a software infrastructure that could scale easily and provide specific tools for the learning process.