A professor needs a lightweight platform to supplement their existing clunky LMS. This platform should facilitate quick, informal tasks like students sharing links, professors pasting links to surveys/articles, durable file storage, and support for both in-person and online asynchronous teaching.
I'm looking for a lightweight platform that will allow me to supplement my department's rather clunky LMS for the small and quick things that you might do during the semester, even during class in real time. I teach in an environment where the LMS is rather 'official', shared across different cohorts, and difficult to update. It's not suitable for getting students to share links with each other for example, or for me to quickly paste a link to a survey or an article, etc. I've considered using a Discord channel, but I was wondering if there is a lightweight platform that could also potentially store files in a more durable way, so I could point back to them after they are uploaded. I teach both in-person and online asynchronous, so real-time channel and something a bit more asynchronous / durable would be an advantage.