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Announcements

A simple and secure way to broadcast notices & announcements, and publish news. It comes with ‘display-in-future’ and ‘expiry date’ facility.

Useful when you want to create a “virtual notice board”.

Event Calendar

Important events can be displayed (with details-on-click) under specific dates on a calendar. E-mail reminders can also be sent optionally.

Useful for exam schedules, meetings & conferences, deadlines etc.

Discussion Forums

An online platform for students, teachers and management to discuss topics asynchronously (unlike chatting). Saves & displays discussions topic-wise.

Useful when you want a group discussion on a topic. Also when you expect a reply for a query from anybody within your organization.

Blogs

Blogging, the latest trend in the Internet world, allows members to write articles, essays, comments etc. and share them publicly.

Useful when you want to just write about something and express yourself subjectively. For example “My experiences at the international conference” can’t be distributed as a formal notice.

Repository

Upload documents (like text files, presentation slides, pdf etc.) from your computer. It can then be downloaded by authorized users from anywhere.

Useful when classnotes or any other document needs to be distributed among a group, or made available for reference anytime in future.

White Board

Its a plain and simple white board! You can write any text on it or even create advanced displays using HTML.

Wiki	It is the newest way of co-authoring documents. It maintains a single active copy of the document online and also tracks the changes made to it. Useful when more than one persons work on a single document. For example a team working on a client-proposal.

Custom Database

A custom defined table which can be used to build online lightweight databases. For example time-table, task allocation table, member records etc.

Useful when multiple users need to view or edit tabular data which traditionally requires group-sharing of excel files through e-mail.