Leading online learning management systems (LMS) are siloed e-learning tools with no student community and few tools to allow or encourage social learning. These systems don’t alert students when the instructor posts new content or announcements leaving a major communication gap between instructors posting assignments and students knowing about them. Consequently students are required to consistently log in and search for new items. While students may spend as little time as possible on their school’s LMS, many spend as much time as possible on Facebook.

CourseFeed is therefore a “mash-up” between online school content and Facebook. CourseFeed’s seamless integration with a school’s LMS ensures classmates displayed in a CourseFeed course are the same students enrolled in corresponding LMS course. Users see names and photos of their classmates and are given tools to interact – making online course work social and collaborative. CourseFeed’s alerts let students know when a change is made in the LMS course and provide single-click access to course content (no more hunting around). Below is a list of CourseFeed features: