##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 someone start to work on a task, he would move the corresponding card from the "To Do" to the "Doing" list, so other team members know that the task is under process and similarly, the card will be move to the "Done" list once the task is achieved. At any moment, a card can be moved backward too.
Unfortunately, in order to use Trello, each user must create an account. It is however possible to install similar tool on your own school server like Wekan (which can also be tested online) or Kanboard (which provide alternative ways to host it).
##Real-time communication for teams
In the Knork project, a colleague of mine did share her experience with Slack a tool that provides real-time communication for teams and broader groups without needing to belong to a specific organization. Slack provides direct messaging, private messaging, easy and fast file and link upload, integration to share code and files, for example in Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box; just paste the link and that document is immediately in sync and searchable in Slack too. It provides channels to organize the communication and also has native apps for iOS and Android.
In order to use slack, a user must provide an email. I did not try it, so my knowledge with this tool is very limited.
