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Collaboration and Communication

Online environments can become vital spaces for instructors, students, and TAs to exchange resources and ideas. Email atc_support@cornell.edu to get help establishing yourself in any of them.  Our services include:

  • Blogs:  The Blog service supports blogs for teaching, research, library, and university communication activities for the Cornell community.
  • Confluence Wiki: Build a community web site authored and edited by its users.
  • Discussion Boards and E-mail Lists: Facilitate class forums and small chat groups with Blackboard's built-in tools, e-mail lists, or newsgroups.
  • Web Conferencing:  CIT’s Academic Technologies group can demonstrate and assist you with utilizing a Web conferencing tool (Adobe Connect) to collaborate with groups and classes live over the web with a combination of chat, video chat, desktop sharing, and whiteboarding.
  • Piazza Q&A tool: Piazza allows students to post questions outside of class where faculty or other students can answer them, in a very user-friendly environment. The instructor can control enrollment and can choose whether to allow anonymous questions.

Cornell’s audio/video and academic technologies services help you teach, do research, collaborate, participate, learn, and share without being bound by geography or travel budgets.

  • Video Conferencing Services: Have meetings or group collaborations in real time, face to face, with people who are in different locations.
    • # Point-to-Point Videoconferencing: Share your classroom content or presentations, or talk face-to-face between two geographic locations.
    • # Multipoint Videoconferencing: Share your classroom content and presentations, or talk face-to-face between three or more geographic locations.
    • To get assistance in planning and scheduling a point-to-point or multi-site video conference using CIT’s systems and facilities please visit the Video Collaboration Services web site.
  • Web Streaming Services: If you need people at different locations to be able to see your symposia, colloquia, or special events, CIT can stream these events via the Internet on a live or archived basis (MediaSite).  To get assistance with planning and scheduling Web streaming, please visit the Video Collaboration Services web site.