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Communication between professors and students at the university level is extremely important, but not always easy to facilitate.  Even with digital services such as email, getting in touch with a teacher can be difficult for a student.  Students’ messages will often get lost within a large group of messages that are in a professor’s inbox.  Universities also discourage teachers and students from using public social networks like Facebook in order to communicate, eliminating that option. 

However, a cool product on the market now can help facilitate more communication between university professors and their students through the use of private social networks.  Young startup Ututi provides schools with private, locked-down social networks, which are only available to a college’s students and faculty.  Students can connect with their professors and classmates through each individual private social network on Ututi.  Professors can post lecture notes, homework updates, and have private chats with students through an Ututi network.  These feature not only help students get in touch with their teachers when they need help or would like a question answered, they also help professors keep their inbox less cluttered as they can keep their correspondence with students in a separate convenient location.  Universities that have interest in integrating an Ututi network into their system should make sure they have the proper office IT support services to maintain it.

Ututi doesn’t only connect professors with students.  It also allows students to connect and communicate with each other.  People can find their classmates, even for large lectures, and post messages to the entire group or chat with one other student privately.  These features are helpful when a student can’t get a response from a teacher and needs information about a lecture they missed or a due date for an assignment.  With Ututi, students can also form study groups more easily and communicate with other group members more conveniently.  Students who have trouble accessing Ututi to take advantage of these features may want to contact a computer support specialist for help.

Ututi is a startup that wants to make communication at universities easier for everyone involved.  It is a noble goal.  However, if the company wants to make a serious dent in the market, they would do well to expand their services to mobile applications.  More students use smartphones than any other technology and taking advantage of that would help Ututi expand further.  Until they do create a mobile presence, Ututi at least has a solid web service that will appeal to many students and professors.

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