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Academic Websites and Online Communities

Create academic websites and online communities instantly in a few easy steps. Select from the wide range of communities on this page to create faculty and student websites, ePortfolios (webfolio), club and groups websites, online classrooms with integrated course management system, tutor rooms, study groups, and department/office websites. academic communities

All websites and online communities come with easy-to-use features such as built-in content editing and publishing tools, message boards, calendars, tag boards, site and menu designers and more.

Community Types

  For Students For Faculty For Schools
Personal websites yes yes  
Classrooms   yes  
Club websites yes    
faculty groups   yes  
Private groups yes yes  
Study groups yes yes  
Tutor rooms yes yes  
Departments     yes
Schools     yes


student and faculty websites

Create free student and faculty web sites instantly three easy steps:

  1 Sign up or Login
  2 Activate your website
  3 Design your website

private groups

A private group is a generic community with a discussion board, calender, and basic web site.

Who can moderate: Only faculty and students can create and moderate a private group

This is a Private community: Only members of private groups can access its pages, discussion board and other components.


faculty groups

A faculty group is an online community of faculty with common interests. The community includes a web site and a number of tools including communication and site management tools.

Who can moderate: Only faculty group site admins can create and moderate a faculty group

This is a Public community: Anyone can access the web site of faculty groups. Certain components such as the discussion board may be only available to members.


tutor rooms

A tutor room is created by tutors for online communications with their tutees

Who can moderate: Only faculty and student tutors can create and moderate a tutor room

This is a Private community: Only members of tutor rooms can access its pages, discussion board and other components.


student clubs

A club is an online presence for student organizations and clubs. Clubs come with a number of tools for member interactions as well as site management.

Who can moderate: Only club site admins can create and moderate a club

This is a Public community: Anyone can access the web site of student clubs. Certain components such as the discussion board may be only available to members.


classes

A class is a suite of course management tools including content management, coursework and assignments, gradebook, and communication tools.

Who can moderate: Only faculty can create and moderate a class

This is a Private community: Only members of classes can access its pages, discussion board and other components.


departments and offices

A department site is an easy to maintain web site and community tools for academic departments and offices.

Who can moderate: Only department site admins can create and moderate a department

This is a Public community: Anyone can access the web site of departments and offices. Certain components such as the discussion board may be only available to members.


schools

A school site is an easy to maintain web site and community tools for schools and educational organizations.

Who can moderate: Only school site admins can create and moderate a school

This is a Public community: Anyone can access the web site of schools. Certain components such as the discussion board may be only available to members.


study groups

A study group is a group of students interested in communicating online. It includes a message center and web site building tools. Faculty can also join. A member can create unlimited number of study groups. Study group web sites are only available to their members.

Who can moderate: Only faculty and students can create and moderate a study group

This is a Private community: Only members of study groups can access its pages, discussion board and other components.


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