What is "Collaboration"?

Collaboration can be defined as multiple interactions that occurs between two or more people for the transfer of complex information for some common goal over a specified period of time.

What are "On-line Collaboration Tools"

On-line Collaboration Tools are the on-line tools that satisfy the need for communication, sharing, transfer and exchange, tracking and management of information and/ or knowledge between different people in remote locations. Example of these types of tools are: e-mail, community calendars, discussion boards, announcements, on-line document sharing and reviewing, etc.

ALMS's Collaboration Tools

There are four main collaboration tools offered by ALMS. These are Announcements, Discussion Forums, Document Sharing and Community Calendar. Other collaboration tools such as video conferencing, web labs etc. are also available or can be implemented at customer's request.

Announcements

The Annoucements is an asynchronous (accessed at different times, form different locations) collaboration tool that facilitates the upload of news/ announcements on the system. Screen shots of the tool presented below:

Discussion Forums

The Discussion Forums facilitates both synchronous (different location real time exchange of information) and asynchronous collaboration and allows for exchange of information of information and knowledge between different users situated in remote locations.

Document Sharing

Asynchronous collaboartion tool that permits the storage, exchange and management of documents via Internet.

Community Calendar

Asyncronous Collaboration tool that provides different views of callendar events (year, month, week, day) and add/edit/delete calendar events.