Collaboration Tools

Rice community members and their external colleagues can collaborate with confidence in the security and privacy of their data using a variety of tools in the Rice private computing cloud.

• Blogs - short for "web log" (electronic diary), meant to be shared with others; blogs can be set up to allow readers to add their comments.
• Wikis - Web-based knowledge management site; group members can actually change each other's content instead of being restricted to commenting on the published content.
• JIRA - bug or issue tracking software, can also be used for project management,
• OWL-Space - Rice's official course management and collaboration application
• Sharepoint - Microsoft's collaboration suite offers file sharing, knowledge sharing, document versioning, and event calendars.
• Web sites - better suited for publishing information for a group to review than for group member editing of the content.