Colabo is an online collaborative collage board where ideas meet and can be displayed. It provides an unlimited canvas where students can add texts, images, and 3D models to explain their ideas and facilitate effective online collaboration.
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Colabo is a web app for online collaboration of college students. During remote studies, college students come together online to have group discussions or collaborate on class projects. While online meeting platforms like Zoom enables students to meet and interact synchronously, the limited screen space inevitably creates communication barriers, especially when the discussion is around something 3-dimensional. Students may find it frustrating failing to describe their ideas clearly, or easily losing focus when things get confused.But online communications can be directed by more than pure words. What if there is a tool that enables sharing ideas in 3D without requiring the fussy process of 3D modeling? Colabo is such a solution. It provides an unlimited canvas where students can add texts, images, and 3D models to explain their ideas and facilitate group discussions.
The app is linked to the Sketchfab API, which provides easy access to abundant open-source 3D models online. Therefore, it is particularly helpful for subjects such as interior design, architecture, culture and history, science, and etc., where contextualization is essential for the area of studies. With the imports of 3D models as visual reference during group collaborations, students are able to examine the inner structures of the objects, and thus, gaining deeper insights on the topic. Discussions can also be generated around these models by adding supporting texts and images.
To create a new board, simply click on the “add new” button. One may decide a theme for the board and change its title. On the new board, one can collaborate with their group mates by adding customized elements, such as inputting texts, uploading images from files or web search, and embedding open-source 3D models. Moreover, the application is linked to mangoDB Atlas — an online cloud-based database, and all the elements added to the board will be saved and shared automatically. One may return to any of the existing boards anytime in the future, and there will be no problem for asynchronous group collaboration.
Get started with Colabo now and enjoy a more fruitful online collaboration experience.