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##Voting

Online voting/polling tools such as Framadate or Doodle can help in scheduling an event or in making a regular poll like "what colors should we choose for the logo?". Usually, the participant will have the yes/no/maybe options for each propositions. Depending on the options, they can change their choices afterward, modify the answers from others or none of these. When scheduling an event, there can be the option to synchronize the best choices with calendar applications. To use these tools, the creator of the poll must give an email address; but then, the participants can participate with just a pseudonym.

##Anonymous voting

The Technische Universität Dresden offers a fully anonymous voting/polling tool called dudle where the creator of the poll do not need to provide an email at all. They also offer a privacy-enhanced version of it.

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##Blogging and publishing

Some file sharing or online editor do allow some kind of content sharing. Sometimes with public access or restricted to only users with the URL. However, in most cases, search engines will not index such content (e.g. because of binary (non-text) formats) and thus such content will be hard to be discovered. So I would not recommend such tools for publishing purpose.

As part of the Knork EU project, we described our experience with Blogger, a blog engine used for presenting outcomes of projects and for sharing materials and links between all students and teachers. Blogger became part of Google in the early 2000s and thus each users who want to edit content on a blog will need a google account.

Another popular choice fo

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##Git

Version Control such as Git allow to track history of files and folder. In every history points (also called version or revision) users will know who did the changes, when and with revision comments, what. Each revisions can be compared, restored and depending on the type of files merged. Unlike the history of file provided by some editor tools where only one file is concerned, a revision can handle a set of files and folders. Most of the version control tools offer option to work offline (e.g. the user edit files during his fight) and later share the changes online with the others. When two (or more) users have edited the same line of the same file, the version control tools will propose different strategies to solve the conflict (but mostly human intervention).

Version Control tools also provide a powerful feature called branches to have files in different states at the same time. A classical

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###Table of Content

• File and content online editing
• Anonymous file and content editing
• Anonymous text sharing
• Online LaTeX editor for quality technical, scientific, academic, multilingual, etc. papers
• Anonymous online LaTeX editor
• Drawing and schema
• Anonymous drawing
• Wiki

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##Kanban board

As part of the Knork EU project, we described our experience with Trello, a collaborative project management tool based on the Kanban board concept. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

When the user creates a new Trello board, there are three empty lists called “To Do”, “Doing” and “Done”. The user can modify these as he wishes by changing the name of the lists, modifying their content by adding Cards on which one can post something, upload files, add checklists, due dates etc. The user can add other contributors in the board and then assign to them tasks which are mentioned on the lists in the cards. When so

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##File sharing

As part of the Knork EU project, we described our experience with Google Drive that can be used to store your files (documents, pictures, music, video, etc.) online, share and access them from any connected devices. Google Drive also provide ways to comment on the content and depending on the type of document a possibility to edit files online too. For your convenience—but mostly to keep you locked-in in their ecosystem to force you to use their products and better profile you by accessing your content—most of the big ICT companies provide similar tools such as Microsoft One Drive and Apple iCloud.

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(for a better reading experience, you could try draft.sx)

##Foreword

As part of the Knork EU project, we started to list digital tools to be used collaboratively with students. From the Creative Classroom EU project, we got a request to find online tools that can be used "anonymously" in order to protect the privacy of underaged students. This gist is an attempt at merging the results from the two sources and also combining it with my own practices.

In here and all the tools related pages listed below (in their respective "Anonymous ..." sections), anonymity mean tools that can be used without the need to create an account. With growing and developing underaged students (and to some extent with everybody), what they write today may not represent them anymore the year after.

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Collaborative editing

• https://www.sharelatex.com/ you can install your own instance (https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex). Sync with github (in progress (only one way yet)).
• http://etherpad.org/
• https://ethercalc.net/ (not tested yet)
• https://www.protectedtext.com/ (not tested yet)

Storage

• http://owncloud.org/features/ Also offer collaborative editing of .odt or .doc files
• http://sparkleshare.org/ (not tested yet)
• https://git-annex.branchable.com/walkthrough/ (not test yet)