an interactive assignment, tutor can monitor student progress, like how much time they spent watching video, student give feedback at end of assignment
These cMOOCs are characterized by a certain DIY (do it yourself) or "edupunk" feel. In 2012, with the introduction of ventures like Coursera and edX, we saw the rise of what George Siemens in his July 25, 2012 blog entry called the xMOOC (please see the References for a link). The xMOOCs are another camp entirely, institutional courses materialized in Coursera and Coursera-like platforms.
Students can easily download a document from Edmodo, use it in another app (like a PDF annotation app) and then upload it again onto Edmodo to submit it as an 'assignment'. This solves the whole 'work-flow' problem that many teachers faced upon the introduction of iPads into the classroom. Worksheets, handouts, task sheets, graphic organizers, anything you want the students to work on, just upload it into your library, add it to a folder that you share with the students or attach it to a post, then they access it and open it in another app. Once they have finished, they need to upload it into their 'backpacks' and then submit it as an attachment to an 'assignment' that you posted.
Pastiche® by Xyleme is a turnkey solution that allows you to rapidly assemble existing textbooks, interactive multi-media, test prep, and moment-of-need support materials and publish them on-demand to any number of customizable and privately branded iPad or Kindle Fire apps.
The Pastiche ecosystem is made up of three components: the Pastiche tablet app, a set of authoring and publishing tools, and the Pastiche Store. The Pastiche Store is a hosted content distribution platform to provide your users seamless yet controlled access to your learning catalog. An intuitive Web admin interface allows you to upload new or updated products and gives you the ability to make them available on per-user, per-group, or public basis.
Sharing sensitive information on cloud storage could post potential risk --
Users also observed that prior to April 2011, Dropbox stated on its website that: "All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES256) and are inaccessible without your account password." But after April 2011, it dropped the 2nd part and changed to: "All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES 256)."
URL Droplet is a simple webapp that allows you to paste in the download link for a file and have it download straight to your Dropbox, so you can deal with later.
Save lot of time if you need to download on the go.