YouFig

About YouFig
YouFig has "private, secure collaboration communities with real-time Workspaces", "Unlimited private & public Workspaces for collaboration, sharing & community interactions (both real-time and asynchronous)", "Smart collaboration apps (widgets) in your Workspaces & enjoy new releases & rich functionality for your community", and the ability to "create custom collaboration widgets for your community & get distributed to thousands of active communities"

Resources
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Strengths

 * Allows students to work on a project from different areas at the same time
 * Students can set up meeting times
 * Documents can be attached to meetings for review
 * Keeps a history of who has done what during the meetings
 * Teachers can decide how exclusive the community will be and what rights and privileges each community member will have
 * There is 24/7 support online for help with your community.
 * Unlimited storage for documents, files, videos, pictures and more
 * Students can connect with other members in other communities
 * Teachers and students can get real time updates of what people in your community are doing, what they are contributing and more

Weaknesses

 * YouFig is currently not accepting new members.

Opportunities

 * Students can set up meetings times outside of class to work on projects

Threats

 * Students can insert links and images that may be inappropriate

Classroom Uses

 * Create a community for groups and give them a document to read and another with discussion questions. Have the students read the article and then work in the online community to discuss and answer the comprehension questions.