G+ Communities for In-class Collaboration

Online tools that support collaboration and communication can enrich students’ learning in face-to-face classes. Tools like Communities can help to seamlessly support students, and blend their in-class and personal study time for courses. (In blended courses, it is especially important that these two environments aren’t isolated from one another.)

Group work done in class typically concludes with the groups sharing their ideas back to the group. Using a G+ Community is a more tangible and efficient way for students to share their work with others. By capturing and sharing their work using text, images, and videos, students create artifacts that their peers and teaching staff can access, and which they can refer back to in future. Students can also use the Community as a presentation platform for live sharing.