With its latest version CBOX OpenLab, Commons In A Box has created a dynamic open-source platform for educational publishing.
Ideal Use: Larger-scale, more complicated OERs that may require community/collaboration features, multiple sites, and individual user accounts.
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CBOX offers a multi-faceted and customizable homepage interface, with the ability to feature everything from multiple courses to a social network of members, depending on the density of the site.
Users create individual accounts that hold all of their interactions on the site, allowing them to connect with other users, associate themselves with classes, and develop their own projects and subsites.
After the initial homepage layers, CBOX allows teachers to set up many OER courses within the same installation, which can in turn be associated with projects and students also on the site.
Students can use CBOX to host and create their own portfolios of course work and other material.
