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Free online surveys

If all you want to do is get some feedback or set some questions in a hurry then you'll find this tool can help you do that in minutes. There's also pollit.com but the results page has annoying ads.

Box.net

Box.net offers a free 1GB online storage area (with full security for sharing files with others). Keeping your files online means you need never miss having the right file when needed. It’s a great tool for giving groups of students access to course content, and for files too large to send via email, (as well as giving 24x7 access to your materials.

http://www.box.net/

Google Page Creator

An easy to use tool for anyone to create web pages using a browser that can be shared with students and staff. The service features ready built templates to help start you off, as well as many customisation features, plus you can create pages and hold them back from publishing until you want to (e.g. publish a page for a week’s learning at a time)

http://pages.google.com

Writely

Recently taken over by Google, and now temporarily under a limited beta Writely is an online writing and collaboration tool, that works even in real time. You can select who to share documents with, and so it could be set up to work with individuals or groups of students or staff. You can upload existing Word files, save files back to your computer etc.

http://www.writely.com

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/

BackPack

BackPack allows you to take your tasks and to-do lists online, and share with other colleagues or students. tasks and list organiser site. It also integrates with the Writeboard service (see above).

http://www.backpackit.com/

pbwiki

An easy way (pb = peanut butter, as easy as a peanut butter sandwich!) to create a password-protected wiki that you can share with colleagues, students etc. A useful tool for collaborative work, reflective exercises, planning and running projects etc.

http://pbwiki.com

ELGG

ELGG is an open source learning landscape platform, where you can using blogging tools, and interact with and learn from other learning professionals, swapping ideas, resources etc.

http://www.elgg.net

Planzo

An online calendar system that lets you share events with other services you use (e.g. you can copy the ‘code’ into your blog/web page to link to events in the calendar). On top of this it can pull together your email, SMS, etc. into one place to help organise your online world.

http://www.planzo.com

Imagination At Work

A simple tool to allow 2 or more people to ‘whiteboard’ ideas together in real time using a web browser. A simple and intuitive interface, and you can invite friends to doodle and draw using either email or instant messaging.

http://www.imaginationatwork.com

goowy

Another free e-mail tool with no ads but plenty of extras and a clean interface. Includes an IM facility to communicate with your buddies from aol, msn, yahoo and icq and 1GB of free space to manage and share files on-line + 2GB of e-mail, contacts and calendar space. The two features that will appeal to many, though, are the customisable start page and free games included!

http://www.goowy.com

9cays

With this tool you can just start a conversation with a group of colleagues or students by typing what you want to say and listing their e-mail addresses. They can all simply access your message on a web page and reply or ignore as they please. No new applications to learn. 9cays works with your current email software, web-mail and web browser. Anyone joining the email conversation later can read the previous emails in the conversation on the conversation web page.

Email attachments are automatically saved on a server and replaced with a web link so recipients can download them later at their convenience.

http://9cays.com/

Rallypoint

Some of the things you can do with Rallypoint include: create and share online pages with team members, across the corridor or across the globe; tag your pages with labels to organise them in multiple locations;
d efine user and group access to your pages including editors, viewers and subscribers.
Page creation with private and public templates.
Create collections of your favorite pages around any subject matter.
Quickly find pages with a powerful built-in search engine.
Subscribe to page updates to stay informed about topics that interest you.
Find similar pages and information you and your team never knew existed.
Embed images, flash and media directly into your pages.
Attach documents such as Word and Excel to your pages to secure access to those documents.

http://www.rallypointhq.com/

Meet-O-Matic

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