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INFORMATION Home What is ? Open Source Needs Assessment Contact TECHNICAL Download Build Install Documentation SUPPORT OPTIONS Contracts Forums Hosting Pre-loaded servers Backup Services EDUCATION Unit-Testing PRESS Testimonials Brochure Interview PARTNERS  Consortium -- Coexploration Group Jazz Q2Learning -- SITE LOGIN Forgot your pw? To register a new id, please send us email at info@caucuscare.com . (Sorry, self-registration has been bombarded by spammers.) Classrooms Conversation Evaluation (mouse over to expand) is an open-source, web-based eLearning and discussion platform. It is used in universities, non-profits, and companies wherever learning, conversation, and coordination must happen together. Flexible and free, yet commercially supported, is easy to install, and easy to evaluate. See " What is ? " for a frank description of its capabilities, and what it can do for you. News -- 7 April 2011 Geolocation has been a hot topic lately, and now provides the capability to automatically geolocate users' responses, tied in to Google Maps. We've also added "shared" items (that belong to multiple conferences), and many small bug fixes. 15 February 2010 now supports OpenId's , for better integration with other tools and social networking sites. 7 December 2008 adds 'access control' to individual items within a conference -- including a new "write-only" permission (yes, really!). 15 July 2008 now integrates with Google-maps, and automatically detects users' geographic location from their IP address. Also, downloads are now available from a subversion repository, so you can get the latest upgrades instantly. 9 May 2007 5.1 is released. Highlights include: hierarchical "breakout" discussion items, integrated quizzes , and easier build and install scripts. (No more ODBC!) 29 January 2006 version 5 now runs on MacOS X (10.4). Source and binary downloads are available, see the "download" link to the left. 31 October 2005 5 has officially been released! (Happy Halloween!) See the download section to the left. We have also opened a conference (forum) on this site, " 5 Open Source", for people who are building from the downloadable source code. If you need access to the old website(s), see consortium.caucuscare.com or care.caucuscare.com . 27 June 2005 Our new " Navigating eLearning? " brochure debuted at the National Educational Computing Conference in Philadelphia, where NYIT highlighted in their presentation A Toolbox for Online Learning: Creating the Human Environment . World-wide protest of U.S. SOPA and PIPA "blacklist" bills On January 17 and 18, we are joining in with Wikipedia and many other information providers, to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills currently before the U.S. Congress. We believe that these bills present a clear danger to free expression on the Internet, in the guise of stopping online piracy. They also risk the dangerous precedent of one country meddling with the infrastructure of the global internet. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted an excellent summary of the problems with these "blacklist" bills. We urge you to read it, and if you are a U.S. citizen, to contact your Representative and Senators to express your own view....