What's your opinion about MaxClass?

About half a year ago the very first version of MaxClass (social network / communication platform for education) went live. MaxClass was the result of a team working for nearly a year to build a tool that will help teachers, parents and pupils communicate with each other.

It's free (though recently some additional licenses have been added) and online so pretty easy to use. I would love to hear what you think about the idea or the platform itself. You can easily make a test account by adding a test class to the test school or go ahead and add your school to the long list fo schools already in MaxClass. www.maxclass.com

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Permalink Reply by Katie Chambers on October 6, 2011 at 1:27pm

I signed up for an account but I'm unsure what to do now. What exactly is MaxClass and what is it used for.

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Permalink Reply by Michiel Klonhammer on October 6, 2011 at 3:29pm

Hi Katie, Once you've made an account you can add a class to a school. You can try it out by searching for test school and then adding a class. Or you can add a real or virtual school and start adding classes to that.

Once you've got a class you can invite people. There's a video on that in the Help section (either adding them, passing out paper invitations, or importing them from a CSV).

The group can be students and a teacher or parents and a teacher or all of them together. Once thery are in they can use a wall, messaging (mail parents all at the same time for one or several classes), forums, photo-sharing etc etc. The whole idea is that you have the roles you need in school and it's a private social network but apart from that it's just as good as the major social networks.

Good luck with it and let me know. (there's a tour here: http://www.maxclass.com/demo)