Technological Tools

Slack

Slack is a team collaboration tool for real time messaging and file sharing.
Users can make a voice or video call to another user or all members of a channel. Slack can work with other video conferencing tools such as ZOOM, Skype, etc.
Users can organize conversations, search history in channels which can be divided up by team, project, etc.
With shared channels, users can work with external members from another channel.
Students can integrate more than 1000 apps (e.g., Google Apps) into their Slack channels for improved efficiency in project management and communication.
Students conduct a self-evaluation of any individual/group project by reviewing the record in a personal thread or a group project channel.

	Slack workspace
	Screen sharing in a video conference
	Pinning a file to the conversation

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