Due to the outbreak of Corona Virus, all the students are studying from their home in online mode only. All the National, International events are organising in online mode only. I want to share my personal experience to write about this topic. Recently I had participated in MIT COVID-19 INDIA TURNING THE TIDE challenge, which was commenced online. The day before event, I came to know that the event will be held on slack workspace. I was completely unaware about what is slack workspace or slack app. Even I didn't know how to register or join in this app. After seeing some videos from youtube I create an account on slack workspace.
But the actual story begins from here. By using the joining link I had joined all the groups in slack workspace but the next crucial stage is team formation. I didn't have any certain idea how to do team formation. After getting help from organisers I was able to join a team. When I work with the team they asked me to join trello and miro board to work with them. Again I didn't have any single idea how to use them. Then they asked me to join notion and work there. After getting help from the team I was able to do my job and won the competition.
Now, came to the actual point. When you want to work with all over world, you need to know about decent number of apps and websites. So, from my personal experience I have listed some websites and apps that every students must know while they are studying online. After seeing the list if you want a tutorial blog for the listed websites, then comment the names of the websites.
Free Useful Websites List Every Students Must Know
The name workspace indicates itself that slack is a workspace where the business persons, organisations and also teams can work together and communicate between them. Here team members can communicate with other team members personally. Here teams also communicate between them by using video calling and calling feature. Team meetings can easily done and it is very easily to use. One can attach file, pdf, or any document easily. Apart from its features it supports two-factor authorisation feature to secure your account. You can enroll more than 1000 team members in a team (as I saw there). This workspace is not completely free, it has a paid version also. For the small teams such as college students project team need not to go for premium version, free version is sufficient. It is also available in app version.
2. Miro Board
In a simple word it is a type of white board but in complex word it is collaboration tools where the team works together. Here all the team members can easily visualise their rough idea such as minimum viable prototype, implementation roadmap, research data, source details etc. After some practice one can easily use this website. It is available in app version also. You can easily sign up using your Gmail id and start your project. You can easily share or post your images in a single click. In this miro board a lots of templates and frameworks available, you don't need to create. Also it featured infinite canvas, which makes it more creative. Also one can easily post sticky notes, various posts, minutes of meeting etc.
3. Trello Board
It is also a collaborative tool and you can use it very easily. It is a type of board with many advance features. Here you can easily organise your day by making a time to time schedule in the boards. One can create many boards. Students can prepare a schedule for reading books or any other course. By using this students can easily track what subject they need to read next or what is their next work. Teams are also use this to assign works to the team members. When the team members open the board they easily track what their next assignment is. It is also very helpful for college projects to assign works to all the team members and track on their progress. On other side family members can plan a vacation with all the family members. It is also available in app version.
4. Notion
It is a common workplace for all the team members of a team, Here team members can collaborate, share their documents, projects report and manage projects. I Personally use this tool and it has so many features. One of the main and important feature is reliable and powerful note taking. If you are doing a project with your team and want to assign project work with all the team members then you can easily assign to all the team members easily. It is also available for paid version. But for normal usage free version is best. It is available in app version also.
Few days ago I participated in a webinar using Microsoft teams. So, from my personal experience it is a very useful tool for students as well as teachers while online study is the only one option. Its name itself refers that it is an collaborative tool where team members are collaborate with each other, upload files from computer or drive. As well as teachers can are using this because they can easily see the attendees as well as no other person can enter without the team member. Here admins need to add the participant id manually to enter into a team, so it is very secure for confidential work also. It is available in android app version also. You just need to create an Microsoft account that's it.
Here I discussed about 5 most important tools for students as well as teachers also. Hope you will surely try this tools and work with your team happily. For getting update when we post new article, subscribe our page using your email id. You will get an email when we post new article. See you in next post. If you have any query please comment and reach to us using contact us form.
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