Collaborize

Collaborize is a free collaborative education platform for teachers and students.

The Platform

• Easy-to-use online learning platform. Launch a free site in less than 5 minutes!
• Safe and password-protected learning community for you and your students
• Keep the learning process fresh and interesting for students

Structured Conversations

• Streamline conversations and drive to specific learning outcomes with structured topic types
• Take a poll, hold a debate, post a practice test or let your students support their arguments
• Launch student-driven projects and challenge-based learning
• Let your students be heard and support each other in dynamic conversations

Attachments

• Bring the best resources from the Internet into your online classroom by attaching pictures, videos, PDF or Microsoft Office® Documents
• Make conversations more fun and interactive by accommodating different learning styles
• Connect lessons and assignments to real-world issues, in real time

Results

• Show tangible outcomes of your students’ online participation to drive deeper discussions and activities in class
• Easily gauge student understanding
• Use student-driven results to create new lessons and assignments

Groups

• Support customized learning and differentiation by allowing teachers to post two versions of the same topic or task to accommodate different learning styles
• Provide extra credit opportunities to challenge a group of students based on their capabilities
• Incorporate more images and videos for visual learners, and attach audio (lectures, speeches, etc.) for auditory learners
• Create groups based on class period, learning abilities, special assignments, practice test groups, language proficiency, etc.

Reports

• Save time and make grading easier
• Track activity across your site, entire class or by each individual student’s participation
• Automatically build and share online portfolios of student work
• Facilitate more meaningful communications with administrators, counselors and parents

Topic Library

• Instant access to a vast and growing collection of teacher-designed lessons
• Create topics, lessons and assignments that you can share with other educators worldwide
• Download peer-reviewed topic-based lessons with just one click