Colaborate is a game changer for teachers and students. Whether in class or remote, students can get their work done, and teachers can get insights into their process.
What is Colaborate?
Colaborate is an innovative digital lab notebook that allows teachers to easily assign lab reports to their classes, and lets their students work individually or together to complete hands-on activities that are easy to access and grade. With Colaborate, students don’t have to pivot because they suddenly find themselves learning from home, they just work the way they always do!
Why Colaborate?
Colaborate is packed with features that make teaching and learning easy and collaborative!
Create new labs or import PDFs of labs you already have.
Easily deliver assignments to all students and classes.
Import photos, and create and edit graphs, tables, and equations.
Access, complete, or grade hands-on lab activities using a mobile device, tablet, or laptop.
Communicate with other students and teachers through comments right in the program.
Integrates with Google classroom, Canvas, and Schoology
Grade students work right in their lab.
Complies with COPPA, FERPA, NYS Ed Law 2-D.
Start by loading the XML cartridge from this page into your LMS of choice. Once completed your platform will not yet be registered with the Colaborate backend. If you’re using Canvas you can simply launch the application which will automatically register your instance via available information which will then be active upon relaunch. For other services you will need to register an independent account on the Colaborate platform itself and fill out the information on the LTI configuration page. Once this has been completed your LMS will be registered and you can begin launching to Colaborate from within your own platform. To begin using notebooks and assignments you will need to purchase a license from Colaborate directly.
Colaborate is generally screen reader compliant. If any problems are encountered by end users please contact support <https://colaborate.io/support> with your specific issue.
All passwords and PII are stored in an encrypted format separate from the primary content database. Name and email may be imported from your LMS as metadata associated with various internal services (e.g. notebooks, assignments). Accounts sourced via LTI can only be accessed via their original login service.
Colaborate Inc. (Colaborate,” “we,” “our,” and/or “us”) values the privacy of individuals who use our educational programs and software (collectively, our “Services”). This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, use, and share information from users of our Services (“Users”). By using our Services, you agree to the collection, use, disclosure, and procedures this Privacy Policy describes. Beyond the Privacy Policy, your use of our Services is also subject to our Terms of Service.
Information We Collect
We may collect a variety of information from or about you or your devices from various sources, as described below.
A. Information We Collect When You Use Our Services.
If you use Colaborate, we collect the following information automatically:
Device Information. We receive information about the device and software you use to access our Services, including IP address (which can be used to derive your general location), web browser type, operating system version, and device identifiers.
Usage Information. To help us understand how you use our Services and to help us improve them, we automatically receive information about your interactions with our Services, like the pages or other content you view, the searches you conduct, your comments, any content you post, and the dates and times of your visits.
Please review your web browser’s “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete or choose not to accept cookies from the Service, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Service to their fullest potential.
B. Information You Provide to Us.
In addition to the above information, if you use Martha Madison or Election Edge, we collect the following information that you provide:
Registration and Profile Information. When you sign up for an account, register to use our Services, or sign up for notifications or updates, we ask you for information such as your name, and email address.
Communications. If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you. For example, when you contact us for customer support, we will receive your name, email address, the contents of a message or attachments that you may send to us, and other information you choose to provide.
Payment Information. If you make a purchase through our Services, your payment-related information, such as credit card or other financial information, is collected by our third-party payment processor on our behalf.
Integration Information. If you choose to sign in with Google, then we will collect the information necessary to connect your Google account to content you create on our Service, which includes your Google user identifier. Additionally, if you or a teacher chooses to integrate a Google Classroom, then we will collect necessary Classroom information to content created on our Service, which includes the Google Classroom identifier and Google user identifiers for all students in that Classroom.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We use the information we collect:
To provide, maintain, improve, and enhance our Services;
To understand and analyze how you use our Services and develop new products, services, features, and functionality;
To communicate with you, provide you with updates and other information relating to our Services, provide information that you request, respond to comments and questions, and otherwise provide customer support;
For marketing and advertising purposes, such as developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you;
To generate anonymized, aggregate data containing only de-identified, non-personal information that we may use to publish reports;
To facilitate transactions and payments;
To find and prevent fraud, and respond to trust and safety issues that may arise;
For compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms of Service or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency; and
For other purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time the information is collected.
How We Share the Information We Collect
Analytics Partners. We use analytics services such as Google Analytics to collect and process certain analytics data. These services may also collect information about your use of other websites, apps, and online resources. You can learn more about Google’s practices by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
As Required By Law and Similar Disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose your information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (a) comply with law enforcement requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (b) respond to your requests; or (c) protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety. For the avoidance of doubt, the disclosure of your information may occur if you post any objectionable content on or through the Services.
Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. We may transfer your information to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets. The use of your information following any of these events will be governed by the provisions of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time the applicable information was collected.
Consent. We may also disclose your information with your permission.
Your Choices
Marketing Communications. You can unsubscribe from our promotional emails via the link provided in the emails. Even if you opt out of receiving promotional messages from us, you will continue to receive administrative messages from us.
Security
We make reasonable efforts to protect your information by using physical and electronic safeguards designed to improve the security of the information we maintain. However, as no electronic transmission or storage of information can be entirely secure, we can make no guarantees as to the security or privacy of your information.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal information from children under 13 years of age, and no part of our Services are directed to children. If you learn that a child has provided us with personal information in violation of this Privacy Policy, then you may alert us at info@colaborate.io.
International Visitors
Our Services are hosted in the United States and intended for visitors located within the United States. If you choose to use the Services from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. Also, we may transfer your data from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating the Services. By providing any information, including personal information, on or to the Services, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.
Update Your Information
You can update your account and profile information or close your account through your profile settings.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will post any adjustments to the Privacy Policy on this page, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted. If we materially change the ways in which we use or share personal information previously collected from you through the Services, we will notify you through the Services, by email, or other communication.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our activities, please contact us using the contact information available on our website at https://colaborate.io/support
Last Updated: May 10, 2022
To support automatic platform registration Colaborate makes use of the following Canvas API endpoints by default:
- `/api/lti/authorize_redirect`
- `/login/oauth2/token`
- `/api/lti/security/jwks`