Authors are notified when comments have been made or when changes in the database have occurred. Various note formats and supports have been designed to enhance the potential of the communal database for collaborative knowledge-building. In Knowledge Forum, you will find 'Notes' that represent student ideas and questions. Scaffolds' are built in and provide support in areas such as text analysis, theory-building, and debating. Knowledge Forum is unique in that it offers multiple 'Views' on a growing body of knowledge.
Views provide graphical organizers for notes.
Notes can be added to one or more views, linked, placed in clusters, and moved to represent different ways of conceptualizing the developing knowledge base. Accordingly, views provide dynamic structuring facilities that extend well beyond typical list structures. These supports are designed to foster emergent goals and conceptual change. Web Knowledge Forum has been enhanced so that it mirrors new functionality of Knowledge Forum and additionally provides an exciting design environment in its own right. Web Knowledge Forum is now the version being used for groups who need Web or multi-platform access to Knowledge Forum.