I was helping a friend last night find a solution to easily share Microsoft Office and PDF documents for review and for sharing with students of his seminars. After looking at what is out there, we settled on box.net.
Box.net has a friendly interface for uploading and sharing these folders and files, and looks like a well regarded service that has been around at least a couple of years.12
The free option of 10MB max file size, 1GB storage and 10GB/mo should meet his needs, though it would be better if the max file size was larger.
- Bonus: they use WordPress for their blog. [↩]
- Bonus Bonus: There is a WordPress.com widget to display your box.net publicly shared files in your WordPress.com blog’s sidebar. [↩]
I like box.net for my own personal use, but I often run into trouble trying to recommend it professionally, because of their 10MB limit per file, which often isn’t any bigger than just emailing a file. Really, their biggest competition is gmail. Although for teaching, there’s usually the option of blackboard as well.