Have you used an medium other than email or Moodle to communicate with your students?

[iitb-teachonline]

Have you communicated with your students using any non-standard strategies? Anything other than email or Moodle? How has that worked in terms of student response, ease of use etc? 

Please post your experience here. Other instructors may benefit from your creative idea!  

[such...@gmail.com]

Sir I generally use Moodle and whats app group to communicate with students. Sir my experience regarding Moodle is very good that all students get my all study materials ( PPts, Video links, Pdf, All documents)  and quiz (All formats). Just before some days I completed one FDP of Bodhitree of IIt Bombay. I ould like to use that format bcos it was really nice experience to use Bodhitree  

[bhattachary...@gmail.com]

I have used Google Classroom. It is very effective in online teaching.

[royj...@gmail.com]

I use edmodo, it has facebook like interface , so easy to use. And lot of options including grading. and various question format for evaluation.Secured log in by students  and parents connection ..  etc. it has desktop version and and app also.

ease of use is the main factor magnetised me to edmodo.

https://www.edmodo.com/ 

[Jatin Ambasana]

I have used following LMS:

• Google Classroom
• Very good in communication as every activity is linked with Gmail communication.
  
• Not good at automated tasks although.
• Moodle
• Very good in course management and other things like innovative quizzes, discussion forums, self enrollments, etc.
• But requires a lot of training on teacher side to manage the course and the administrator to manage the site.
• Can be setup locally and globally both.
  
• Canvas
• Can be said as a Combination of Google classroom and Moodle with some of its own unique features.
• Can be setup locally and globally both like Moodle.
• Not as much features as Moodle but easy to maintain and not much training required.
  
• Edmodo
• Mostly used in schools, maybe because of its simplicity.
• Easy to use but not so much features as Moodle.
  

Other than these we also use regular Gmail communication, Whatsapp Groups, now Telegram groups, Zoom meetings, Google Meet meetings, etc.

One more way you can use is to make use of GitHub for sharing and collaboration of source code.