LearnLink: Overview
Access: Emory University faculty, staff, and students
Location: http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/login
User Guides: http://www.learnlink.emory.edu/guides/
Contact: http://help.emory.edu or 404-727-7777
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LearnLink is Emory's campus-wide online community resource. Designed to bring together faculty, staff, and students for both academic and extracurricular activities, LearnLink integrates a variety of tools and services, including:
-Community, Group and Personal Calendar and Scheduling
-Group Collaboration and Management
-Course and Content Management
-Targeted Group/Community Announcements via pop-up messages
-Discussion Boards/Instant Messaging
-Shared Document Wikis and Blogs
-Web Publishing
-Shared contacts and mail lists
-Portable bookmarks
-Item/message history and tracking
LearnLink Desktop
LearnLink developed at Emory primarily as an academic initiative to enhance learning. The system has been used in a variety of ways, from simply providing materials online to encouraging students to become more active participants in their own education and increasing communications between faculty and students.
As more people began to use LearnLink, various uses developed for the system outside of the traditional classroom applications. LearnLink is now an integral part of the Emory community, and provides a number of unique opportunities for communication.
The LearnLink environment has been created using a FirstClass server as the underlying structure and the basis for most system functions. LearnLink is most fuctional when users access the system via the FirstClass client software, but most content is still available for people connecting from the Web.