IVLE

Wow!! NUS really got a great internet community.
We have something called IVLE (Integrated Virtual Learning Environment).

Each student has access to his/her own modules' info.
All the lecture notes, assignments, announcements etc will be posted and/or submitted through IVLE.
There're also forums, where students in the same module can communicate and ask question online.
Class roster, where list of students taking the same module is available. You can send email to your classmates/module-mates through it.

Besides Modules, we have this thing called Community.
Students can form groups online, share same topics of interest, do group project, etc (hereby called communities).
There's forum and place to upload/download files.
Last semester, I joined one to communicate with lab partners while doing lab reports.
This semester, I created one for my project group, and we explored more, further than just forum and sharing files.
We tried out Online Meeting.

Yes, just Like Online Conference, but more advanced.
Besides voices and images of each other, we share the same screen.
Meaning we can have something like a whiteboard to draw and write on it and everyone in the meeting can see it, simultaneously.
We can also import powerpoint slides to it, and that's what we did just now.
Then we went through slide by slide, adding comments or notes on them.
There's also Text Chat function, just like MSN.
I saved the whole conversation during the 4 hours meeting into pdf file, ya, that's our minutes.
Everything typed, written or drawn can be printed out, on paper, or to PDF using relevant program like Acrobat.

So well...
See...NUS students are so "blessed" with all these high-tech applications.