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Wikis provide groups within the Brown community to collaborate in online wiki-spaces. Wiki-spaces are made up of a collection of interconnected webpages and attachments.

Online Course Reserves Access (OCRA) is a service used to place books and other physical media on reserve and to create electronic reserves: links to ebooks and other online content, digitization of articles, book chapters, full-length movies, short video clips, and audio files. Links to reserves in all formats can be added to a MyCourses site.

The Class Announcement List and Bulk Email service enables instructors to send one way (no-reply) email messages to their students. This service is also used by high level University offices to send official email communications to large, specified segments of the University population.

Canvas, accessed via a web browser provides a collection of built-in tools for uploading of content, communication, collaboration, assignments and assessments in support of teaching and learning.

BrownBlogs is an online publishing platform that allows members of the Brown Community (individuals as well as official University groups, departments, and organizations) to quickly and easily communicate on the web through text, images, audio, and video.  Brown Blogs runs on the

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