Teambition

Today, I would like to introduce a group-work software, Teambition. Teambition is a software which is designed by a Chinese group. Here is the link of this website: https://www.teambition.com/.

This software can also be used in different devices, It can not only be accessed in web, but also for Android and iOS system. With the era of  “information fragmentation”, this software can improve the efficiency of working. Additionally, it is totally free.

This software can be used for students’ group working. Once the students have been divided into groups, the leaders can establish a task with this software, and the group members can be invited into that software. Since this software can be linked with most of the SNS, the process of registration is pretty simple, and the invitation can be sent by email with a link, or a QR code. Really easy.

Furthermore, if each group of the students can invite their teachers into group, it will be very helpful to the monitor process, and the teachers only need to simply click on each project, and the process of each group can be found easily. Compared with the other technologies for group working, this one can involve teacher into group working. Although the teachers may not give any comments while the students working, the troubles students meet or the mistakes will give the teachers a direction for further teaching.

Main Tasks

Now, I’d love to introduce functions of this app. Now, I’d love to introduce functions of this app. When you log in this website you may create a new project as you wish. You can edit the project page and name. At the bottom, you can also choose who can get access to this project. 

After you create a project, you can add tasks in it. You can divide one task into different stages, and the stages can be edited by the button which showed in the picture below. You can add new tasks in each stage, and tasks can be dragged into different stages as demand,  without editing them again.

For each task, you can add notes and some other content into it. Leaders can add detailed information for one task, such as the due time and priority. You may also separate on task into subtasks, so that you can complete them step by step. This is my favourite part. Because the students can claim for different part for one task, which will be very systematical in group work. In addition, since one task could be very complex, if the leader can divide it into parts, this will be very helpful in confidence establishment, and members will keep the motivation on working. 

All the contents relate to this part could be added into this table. At the bottom of one task, members can give comments on this task, and they can also share resources within this stage. Each edit action can be found in history, if you roll down the box.

Posts

You may want to share some ideas or give a draft to the whole group, and you can do this under the subtitle of “Posts”.

This part can be regarded as a discussion forum. You can change the colour or font according to your needs, which will contribute information transmission. Similarly, group members can add comments here. You could attach documents with different formats here, such as PDF, doc, ppt. Tables can be added into it as well, similar with Microsoft softwares.

Files 

Sometimes, you want to share some documents with all teammates. With this software, you don't need to rely on email or some other technologies to share documents. Teambition provides a zone for sharing, and it has already given some clear classifications. If you need, you may create new folders. The best thing is you can add many things as you wish into this website, because there is no limitation.

Meetings and Tags

You can arrange meetings at this software, and the organiser can choose to alert members before the meeting. "Tags" is similar to the function in Blog, when you add anything into this project, you can label the tags, which will be helpful for information searching and activities arrangement. 

Me

"Me" can help you complete your tasks. Your timetable, your tasks, your meetings can be all found from here, and you'll find it is in order. Moreover, sometimes you'll have some ideas, you can add notes here, which can only be only accessed by yourself.

Chat

You may want to have a live chat for discussion when working with your task, you can just press the button showed below, where you can select a person to chat with, and the history can be found in the inbox. The person you talk with will receive the notification immediately. Very convenient. 

App for SmartPhone

This software can be used in phones as well. In this information age, the smartphone plays an important role in daily life. It provides the channel for individuals to connect with others all the time. You can send voice message as well.

In this app, anyone edits anything will send notifications to each teammate, unless you switch off the notification function or you will receive the update information anyway. Of course, every task can be found in this software as well, and you can check it at anytime.

I haven't used this software for a long time, but I really like the design. Since this software is free, and can be learnt easily, I believe it will have many users. This software can be used in different languages, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, English, and Korean. I think it can provide other languages' UI will have more consumers.

This software overcomes the distance issue for group work, however, it might be a little bit complex for young learners. If this software can allow the users to edit one document together lively, it will be cooler, like Googledocs.