Etherpad is a realtime collaboration tool recently acquired by Google (http://etherpad.org/). The tool is open source, and is used at schools like MIT, MSU, RIT, and UCLA. This tool would allow members of the Mason community to easily edit documents with their peers, similar to Google Docs.
Quick, Mason-hosted deployment of student development projects using
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