Excited about collaboration?  
Blog it. Share it. Discuss it.

Enable students to collaborate online! Comments, Discussions, and WikiProjects are all available to students to get them talking and engage their ideas!

Comments

How can you really engage students if they can't respond to content you post?

Give them the ability to add their two cents to Pages and WikiProjects to get conversations going. Comments are a way to provide feedback without assigning a grade.

Discussions/Journals/Blogs

How do you engage students? How do you get them to participate? Let them talk with their classmates!

Have a conversation with the entire class, group by group, or one-on-one. You can assign a topic and choose how your students answer it (solo or with others) and with whom.

Each discussion is different, so you can easily list by reply (threaded) or list by date (blog-like) depending on how you like to read your forums. Rate your students' posts as you read them and view summaries for easy grading later.

Inbox

Tired of fighting spam in your inbox, or missing legitimate message that land in your junk folder?

Haiku LMS' messaging system works just like email, but is fully contained inside Haiku so you can rest assured that your Inbox will remain spam-free.

Google Docs™ Integration

Tired of having to organize all your files and remember what’s where? Rest easy! With Haiku LMS you can bring files in directly from Google Docs as an attachment or as a collaborative document for students to work on. It gets even easier: upload a Word document and convert it to a Google Doc right in Haiku! There’s so much more to say, but we recommend you see for yourself.

Roster Sections

Ugh! A website for every section of a class? Maintain it separately?! Who wants to do that? Who has time for that?!

If you teach more than one section of a course or have shared curriculum needs, you’re going to love this: manage your lesson plan and associate it with multiple rosters. That saves you and your colleagues time that is better served elsewhere. Each Roster Section has its own class calendar so that you can teach your classes at the pace they learn best.

Resource Sharing

Can't there be an easy way to use what works for other teachers and students? Yes, there can—and there is!

Resource Sharing in Haiku LMS is a way for teachers to make Classes, Pages, and Content Blocks available for others to use. When you share content, another teacher can import it into their own class so they have their own version to build on.

WikiProjects

Gone are the days when creating a website required proprietary software and collaborating meant scheduling a meeting.

With WikiProjects, students can post content like text, links, photos, video, and so on.  Even better, they work together as an entire class or as a group for team projects. Individuals can have their own WikiProjects, too, so that they can create their own student websites.

WikiProjects gives students nearly all the tools educators have for creating and posting content - tools like Aviary image editing, Embed the Web™ and the Desmos Equation Editor. Collaborative projects are a great way for teachers to evaluate students’ progress and knowledge, and in Haiku LMS they can grade and comment on WikiProjects, too.