Advantages and features of NICENET

1. Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2), a sophisticated communication tool that brings
powerful World-Wide-Web based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing,
scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments.
2. The ICA2 incorporates many new features and responds to requests received from users.
Nicenet provides the ICA free of charge with no advertising.

3. Anyone can set up a class in minutes and allow others to join. After login, users are
presented with a "heads-up" display of class resources.
4. Conferencing: Create your own private, threaded conferencing on topics you make for the
class or opt to allow students to create their own topics.
5. Scheduling: Put the class schedule on-line. With a seven day advance view on your class
homepage, students will have a heads-up display of upcoming assignments and class
events.
6. Document sharing: Students and professors have the ability to publish their documents on
the site using simple web-based
7. No knowledge of HTML is needed. Automatically integrated with scheduling, students are
one click away from turning in their assignments on-line, giving their peers feedback on
published papers and receiving professors comments.
8. Personal Messaging: Similar to traditional email but fully integrated with document
sharing and conferencing, personal messaging is a great way communicate with and
between individuals in your class, comment privately on conferencing postings or give
private feedback on published papers.
9. Link Sharing: Share links to pertinent Internet resources sorted by topics that you create.