Academic writing, individual or collaborative, is an essential skill for today's graduates.
Unfortunately, managing writing activities and providing feedback to students is very labor
intensive and academics often opt out of including such learning experiences in their
teaching. We describe the architecture for a new collaborative writing support environment
used to embed such collaborative learning activities in engineering courses. iWrite provides
tools for managing collaborative and individual writing assignments in large cohorts. It …

Managing writing activities and providing feedback to students is very labor intensive and
academics often opt out of including such learning experiences in their teaching. We
describe the architecture for a new collaborative writing support environment used to embed
such collaborative learning activities in engineering courses. IWrite provides tools for
managing collaborative and individual writing assignments in large cohorts. It outsources
the writing tools and the storage of student content to third party cloud-computing vendors …