Google Apps for Education— AKA G Suite— are currently used by some schools and departments at TRU, notably the School of Education and the School of Journalism. Google Apps for Education at TRU are locally administered and FIPPA compliant. Apps which are part of this offering include: Google Classroom Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets Video…
Trubox has been updated to a version that includes the new Gutenberg editor. Read on for what it means for you and how to use the new editor.
What it is? Available services: (capture posts in OETC category) Wordpress Mattermost Sandstorm
Kumu is TRUs own mediawiki installation for wiki-based document creation. MediaWiki is the same technology that powers Wikipedia. Use it when you want to create wiki-style information collections.
Mattermost is an open source workplace messaging system similar to Slack. Mattermost is organized around a discussion paradigm that keeps all related discussion contributions together on a single timeline, but still allows for replying to individual contributions. This can easily keep dozens and dozens of discussion fragments out of your email inbox.
Wordpress is currently used to power approximately 25% of all websites. Trubox is our general-use Wordpress installation, but we have others such as Pressbooks which is used for create open textbooks.
Use Wordpress when you want a teaching, learning or research-related website or blog. There are a variety of different uses live on trubox: class, faculty and student blogs; presentation and even support sites; sites that support various scholarly activity endeavours; and much more.
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