Comment on How do I host a site for sharing notes for peers?
Toes@ani.social 1 day ago
Depending on your comfort level and cash flow.
You could host a mediawiki server on something like ovh or digital ocean.
Alternatively Atlassian has a software suite that matches your needs I figure.
There’s also Microsoft OneNote that’s fairly popular. I believe you can use it through their cloud services. And depending on your education institution’s policy it might be free if you ask their IT department.
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
+1 for mediawiki
Although you really need to consider the peer group you are working with, and make the contribution as little work as possible. In my experience, as soon as the course is over people won’t want to do any extra work like change the formatting or integrating with existing materials. And requiring to use a specific format (even if it’s something dead simple as markdown) might already be too much friction.
In my experience shared cloud storage (GDrive, Dropbox,…) works quite well, even if the feature set is very limited. Being able to simply plonk your .docx/.pdf/.whatever into there is very easy and low friction.
A different solution I saw that worked was a forum where you could also upload files that could be categorized into the different courses and were then accessible by others. If you were to self-host this, you’d really want to make sure somehow that it’s not exploited to spread malware or worse.
Anyways, I wouldn’t think too much about how well the material can be represented, but rather how you can get your peers to continuously contribute to it. The best representation is useless without the data going with it.