The utility of online collaborative learning tools and services scales directly with its level of adoption by students, educators and other interested parties. Thus, the designers of such tools are challenged not only to create functional tools but also to find ways to encourage their on-going use. This paper describes the creation and promotion of a suite of Web-based services, including group-editable Web pages, Web-based calendaring, discussion forums and a document repository, aimed at enhancing a graduate projectbased course. We evaluate the use of these different tools and generalize methods with which to increase adoption of new technologies.
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