  Communication is essential for the success of student and professional
software engineering (SE) team development projects. The projects delivered by
SE courses provide valuable learning experiences for students because they
teach industry-required skills such as teamwork, communication, and scheduling.
Professional SE teams have adopted communication software such as Slack, Miro,
Microsoft Teams, and GitHub Discussions to share files and convey information
between team members. Likewise, they have distributed software development
tools such as Visual Studio CodeSpaces and Jira to support productivity. In
contrast, within academia, students have focused on having face-to-face
meetings for team communication and communication tools for file sharing. Due
to the COVID-19 pandemic, universities have been forced to switch to an online
or hybrid modality abruptly, thus compelling SE students to quickly adopt
communication software. This paper proposes a study on the use of communication
software in industry to prepare students for remote software development
positions after graduation.
