At first glance this may look like one of those to do lists. It is however much more powerful, with all sorts of extra features that make it very useful for staff and students (especially students!)

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30 Boxes

30boxes is a calendar tool that has the extra feature of allowing you to track headlines from RSS Web feeds

http://30boxes.com

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teamcowboy

TeamCowboy is for students or tutors who manage student sports teams. Track your roster, set up game schedule, game scores, payment for equipment, etc.

http://www.teamcowboy.com/

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engrade

Engrade is a suite of tools that acts as a gradebook for courses, as well as a communication vehicle. It seems aimed at schools as it allows parents to participate. However college students and tutors could benefit. Grades and scores can be weighted and listed by letter or number. Administrators can oversee educators' classes.

http://www.engrade.com

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mindomo

Mindmaps can help you decide what topics to study, as well as provide an upfront visual cue of what you already know and thus don't need to study. Mindomo has an interface and feature set that rivals even free standalone mindmapping applications such as Freemind. Maps are shareable but require you to register and login to save them.

http://mindomo.com/

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HiTask

Very new and very, very interesting. Billed as a project management tool, the nice interface features a calendar, a place to write tasks and a list of the people in your team. Dragging items from one place to another produces target end dates or adds them to others' lists. Substitute assignment for project and student for solleagues, class for team and you'l get excited too. Oh, there's also a live chat facility too! Amazing. All on-line. No download.

http://www.hitask.com/

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gradefix An organisation tool, not a grading tool! Frantically trying to keep on top of homework is a waste of time. Instead of spending time trying to figure out what homework to do, let Gradefix do the organizing for you. Simply add your homework tasks and Gradefix will work them into students' schedules.

http://www.gradefix.com/

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writeboard

Writeboards are shareable, web based text documents that let you save every edit, roll back any version and easily compare changes. Use Writeboard to write solo or collaborate with others, either within your college or wider, or to work with students on assignments. Writeboards can also link into the BackPack tasks and to-do organiser site.

http://www.writeboard.com/

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GanttProject GanttProject 2.0.4

GanttProject is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool. Features include task hierarchy and dependencies, Gantt chart, resource load chart, generation of PERT chart, PDF and HTML reports, MS Project import/export, WebDAV based groupwork.

http://ganttproject.biz/

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meetomatic An online scheduling system that’s easy to use. You could organise tutorials, sessions, meetings etc. using this tool, with your invitees able to input their preferences and you being able to see an overall picture of availability.

http://www.meetomatic.com

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chat creator Create your own online chat room on the fly, and simply share the web address to the students or staff you want to chat with. Then start typing to chat!.

http://www.chatcreator.com

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thinklink

LGT stands for London's gifted and talented and their main site has all sorts of intresting projects. Hidden, though, is this simple but very effective little tool where you can draw shapes, add pictures and text and things on a whiteboard and then share it with others and invite them to contribute or just use it.

http://www.londongt.org/think-link/thinkLink.html

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freemind Freemind is an open source mind mapping tool that is very easy to pick up and use. Some heavyweight brains behind this project. As it is written in Java it will require a download of the latest Java runtime package.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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