CommSy

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CommSy stands for Community System, and its foreground is independent and group learning. Apart from professional competence, its main purpose is to promote social and medial competence. This is essential in dealing with challenges of the intellectual society, which is characterized by terms like "lifelong learning", "knowledge management" or "virtual teamwork".

Commsy helps the community to expand knowledge through project-orientated learning. We provide our users with two basic "workspaces". It is a web-based system developed with free Internet technologies such as the Apache Web Server, PHP (scripting language) and MySQL (database):

• CommSy Project workspace:
  offers communication tool for the work group members.
   
• CommSy Community workspace:
  supports the respective communities. It is a publication media - also for learning, and provides a platform for semipublic material with diverse topics. Moreover it serves as an index or a guide to the Project workspaces and to the materials.
   

Member groups can create their own spaces in the Project workspace which is accessible only by the members. And each member gets a personal workspace that can be used as ePortfolio.

CommSy follows three key design principles through entire work:

• Simplicity:
  CommSy is easy to use. It's functional and simple structure makes it easy to learn and modify, regardless of the browser and the operating system.
   
• Transparency:
  CommSy assures responsible use of the system. No anonymous entry is authorized. The access right concept is non-hierarchical.
   
• Easy Integration:
  CommSy is set by open standards and therefore easy to add to other media. It can also easily be integrated into existing infrastructures. It turns into a special tool that can be combined with other tools (such as Wiki and Chat) in a tool box.

CommSy is used nationwide in diverse fields of schools, universities, teacher training, freelancer networks, extra curriculum learning and by study groups.

Especially in Hamburg CommSy is broadly used in the University of Hamburg and many schools. CommSy paves the road from schools to the University and from aspiring teachers again to schools. CommSy is for years the mostly used digital platform in universities and schools in all of Hamburg. See the eLearning barometer of the University of Hamburg.   You'll find the portals maintained by the CommSy-Team at:

• communities.commsy.net  
• www.commsy.uni-hamburg.de  
• hamburg.schulcommsy.de  

For more information about CommSy, its features and interfaces, please go to www.commsy.net