Category: collaboration

Knodium for collaboration

Knodium is a collaborative open platform allowing students and instructors to study together in groups based on courses, projects, or shared interests. Users can ask questions and share knowledge, resources, and information with each other to create a knowledge base for students.
To create or join a Hub first make sure you are authenticated in an e-resource in the portal.
Login to the portal http://portal.gre.ac.uk/with your computer ID and password
Select the My Learning page

In the Search the Library portlet select Online databases and academic journals

On the next page the e-resources are arranged alphabetically by title


Select a resource to log into e.g. Academic Search Premier.
Navigate to the search screen
You are now authenticated. Keep this tab in your browser open.
Open a new tab in your web browser, go to Knodium https://www.knodium.com/hubs and select Login
Select Login Through Your Institution
Select University of Greenwich
You should be logged into Knodium without any further prompting.

Scitable


Nature Education has launched a free, online educational resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. Currently focussed on genetics, Scitable combines scientific information with social media functionality.

Scitable provides students with free online access to more than 180 overviews of key genetics concepts. The overviews are evidence-based and have been vetted by Nature Publishing Group staff. By connecting with other Scitable users via groups, chat functionality and other social media features, students can collaborate online with classmates, or with a wider community of experts, researchers and fellow students.
Scitable is also intended as a teaching tool. Educators can set up public or private groups for their students, providing reading lists, course-packs of Scitable articles and group discussions. Scitable is flexible and can be incorporated into courseware services such as Blackboard.
Scitable currently contains content in the field of genetics, specifically: chromosomes and cytogenetics, evolutionary genetics, gene expression and regulation, gene inheritance and transmission, genes and disease, genetics and society, genomics, nucleic acid structure and function, and population and quantitative genetics. Nature Education plan to expand the service to other subject areas in future. More information can be found at: http://www.nature.com/scitable