to easily set up a course website, to upload teaching materials and engage their students;
to share links, references and general observations in research groups without the hassle of setting up a content management system or starting and promoting a blog;
to announce conferences, guest lectures or calls for papers.
iversity allows students...
to interact with course materials right where they already spend most of their time: online;
to work together with classmates on assignments (e.g. social reading, collaborative writing);
to build an archive of learning materials and problem-related discussions in the cloud.