Comments on: Tools: Free Basecamp Accounts for Teachers

By: Dorothy Cane

Dorothy Cane — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:06:42 +0000

Basecamp is developed by Web-designers for Web-designers. I couldn’t use this tool with my students. However, the offer of free accounts for teachers does sound great. Anyway, I’m usng Wrike for big group projects and they give me a 40% discount. I think it’s a good deal for what they offer (unlimited number of projects and terrific flexibility).

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:36:09 +0000

In a class I recently took, the professor had us use the free version of OnStage http://www.onstageportal.com/ for our group projects. I think the free version allowed us to setup 20 projects with 750MB of storage. It worked very well.

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:22:40 +0000

Projjex.com is a great new site that does a fabulous job of project management. It’s completely browser-based, really easy to use, and has a free version. Cool videos too – I love it!

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:28:50 +0000

My biggest problem with basecamp is that its todo lists aren’t hierarchical.

By: oneman

oneman — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:23:04 +0000

I haven’t used Basecamp much (other than to play around with) but one of the things that impresses me is how easy it is to use and how integrated everything is. I could set up a wiki that would do a lot of the same stuff, but Basecamp has already done that. The thing that would really make this work for me personally, though, is full-fledged word processing — if folks could upload a Word doc (or, dare I say it, an Ooo sxw…) and edit it, keeping the formatting, that would be ideal. I know, plain text is teh woot, but trying to get academic work done in plain text just doesn’t fly. Still, I think it’s a great step for Basecamp, as having a system like this already set up and ready to go should make a lot of creative applications possible for teachers.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:09:55 +0000

I've found that PMWiki works better for me than Basecamp, although I suppose it isn't for everybody. It is very easy to install if you have access to a networked computer where you can install it.