Welcome to our online community site!

If you're looking for a way to get started, here are some options:

• First, if you haven't already done so, log in.
• Once you have logged in, create your bio.
• Read over the existing documentation on the wiki pages.
• Create a Group , or a Blog post , or a Podcast.

This site can be used as an informal learning site where all users have comparable permissions, or as a more hierarchical learning environment with students, teachers, classes, and working groups.

Some of the functionality within this site includes:

• a personal workspace;
• a group workspace;
• the ability for site members to create informal working groups;
  
• the ability to create formal class spaces;
• podcasting;
• wiki functionality;
• personal and class blogs;
• rss feeds for the entire site, individual courses, individual terms, and individual users;
• personal image galleries;
• personal file repositories;
• the ability to create private, invitation-only groups;
• social bookmarking, with searching within bookmark descriptions;
• spam protection;
• assignment calendars by course;
• event calendars for site-wide events;
• configurable user profiles with searchable text descriptions;
• the ability to create lists of "friends" among site members;
• the ability to find the missing sock in the dryer.
  

The goal of this site is to create a flexible framework that allows for users to set up a social learning environment or a more traditional learning environment depending on the needs of the learners within the site. With this current framework, both approaches are supported.