The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a web-based course management system that includes a variety of discussion groups, live chat, areas for the teacher to post the syllabus and other handouts and notices, a module for organizing online assignments, a grades module, a surveys module, and a unique, web-based email system open only to students in the class.

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The system provides group management, forums, document repositories, calendar, chat, assignment areas, links, user profile administration on a single and highly integrated package.

UNESCO: Free and Open Source Software for E-learning

Start the transformation by integrating live chat, communities, discussion areas, social media feeds, into your existing corporate website.

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But chat with computer scientists working in a variety of other areas--anything that involves getting computers to understand how humans work--and they will report results that are similarly sporadic and sparse.

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