Collaboration Tools

Collaborative Tools for Group Project

Today in our lab, we have to analysis a collaboration tool that would be beneficial in our group project. The collaborative tool of Google Drive will be used in our group project.

Google Drive

What type of tool and what is it supposed to do?

This is a collaborative tool that allows each member of the group to share files and it allows each person to edit in real time. During the real time editing, any number of group members can edit the document while everyone can observe the changes being made by the use of cloud sharing. Their is also chatting tool abilities that allows the group members to chat in real time which is useful as we can discuss relevant ideas about the group project. There is a large storage base within the Google Drive which allows us to upload large files.

Human Interaction Factor

The human interaction is the ability for each group member to view and edit the documents in real time as well as chat amongst each other. This tool will be very helpful throughout the duration of our project as we can discuss ideas and add/delete/edit ideas as needed. We can keep up to date on our progress, and have virtual meetings to see how everyone is doing.

Collaboration tools is beneficial in any group projects and it also reduces costs such as money and time in the sense that we can meet online instead of having to constantly meet face-to-face, which reduces any petrol or bus money costs as well as time wasted thinking about ideas or going off topic.