Confluence is collaboration platform ideal for online
educational communities and project teams. Moreover, it has great information
sharing and project communication capabilities.
Confluence provides security and administration of user
information and content, it is really helpful for organizations like academic
institution that need to maintain and manage documentation like product
documentation, extranet/intranet platforms, and knowledge bases.
The workspace consists of pages, spaces and a dashboard. The
spaces store the content, it has its very own home page and works just like a
team site. Spaces like activities to mail, RSS feeds, attachments, comments,
blog posts, and pages. There is an option to create two different kinds of
spaces that you can create – personal space and global space. Personal spaces
are listed in the people directory, whereas global spaces are public.
Another element in the Confluence workspace are pages, they
are generally used for continuing work and can move from one space to another.
The layouts of pages are flexible and can include sections, panels, columns,
and so on.
Confluence also supports 3rd party plug-ins. For instance,
it supports the ePUB exporter which allows users to
publish content in ePUB format that is used by many different devices,
including the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and Windows Phones. This makes the
data more accessible.
Security is an integral part of all enterprise level
softwares, and in Confluence the administrator can set permissions by page
access, space, and user group-level.
The administration of user groups on Confluence can be
managed three different setups, Anonymous, Confluence and Custom.
The academic and commercial licenses are based on the number
of users, and you can renew these licenses on a yearly basis. If you are an
academic community you can get free licensing, you just have to submit the
application available on the Confluence website.
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