Title: Collaborations Tool
Course: Dev_TOPKIT_SAMPLE_COURSE_Bauer_S_67 > Section: Week 3 - Designing Interactive Course Activities

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When students work together on assignments such as papers or projects, they may need a centralized location to store and work on shared documents. The Collaborations area in <Replace - Your LMS> houses third party document sharing tools, such as Google Docs.

- Google Docs is a lot like Microsoft Word, so it has a familiar interface for document editing. However, it also allows multiple students to work on the document simultaneously without having to worry about emailing and compiling multiple versions. It also has a chat feature so that students can communicate while working together on the document. Please note that participants will need a Google account to use this tool.

Both students and instructors can start a new collaboration using Google Docs. A notification will be sent to those who were invited so that they can easily access the shared document and get started.

Create student groups and give them an assignment to work on using Google Docs as a Collaboration tools. Then require them to turn in the Google Doc file as a graded Assignment.

Exploring Collaborations

You have the ability to initiate a Collaboration session as a student in this course. If you are interested in using the Collaborations Tool, test out this feature with some of your group members using the Google Docs option.

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