Slack for (A)synchronous Course Communication

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-29-2020

Publication Title

StaTLC: Statistics Teaching and Learning Center

Abstract

You might have heard of Slack before. But what is it? Is it email? Is it a chat room? Slack describes their flagship product as a “collaboration hub that can replace email to help you and your team work together seamlessly.” In this blogpost, we’ll describe how we’ve been using Slack for asynchronous course communication, as opposed to the synchronous course communications afforded by Zoom and other remote conferencing platforms.

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