Company Information

Pyuple ( www.pyuple.com) is a new social network for students and teachers. Pyuple is the first web 2.0 social network site for students, teachers and schools with the following main features:

Online Community for Students and Teachers
Both students and teachers can create profiles and network with one another using Pyuple's personal and community features including a to-do list with reminders, online file storage and a journal / notes feature.

Online Community Builder for Schools
Schools can create an online community for their students, faculty and staff and manage their community site through Pyuple. Each school's community site is part of Pyuple's global online community of students, teachers and schools.

Web 2.0 Course Management System (CMS) / Learning Management System (LMS)
Pyuple's course management system is similar to Moodle and Blackboard. Unlike its competitors, Pyuple's CMS is free and integrates with Pyuple's online student and teacher community and is centralized for any teacher from any school to use.

Student and Teacher Groups
Students can create websites for their clubs with Yahoo Groups-like functionality. Teachers can also create groups for their committees. These groups are integrated within Pyuple's online community / social network.

Faculty Website Builder
Teachers can build their faculty website for free by filling in the blanks. No HTML or web editing software is required as everything is web-based.

Course Search Engine
Schools can list all of their courses on Pyuple via XML. Students can search for courses at multiple schools simultaneously and compare schools by viewing each school's profile.

According to Susan May, director of marketing at Chabot College, "We are excited to be one of the first, if not the first, community college to offer our students a new online community in which they can network, communicate and collaborate with one another. We believe ChabotSpace will help build relationships between our students that will help them succeed in college and attract high school students to come to Chabot."