We’ll need to update it again soon with the student collaboration feature, but for now the overview tour has been updated to include information about the Dashboard and Google Docs integration.

Speaking of Google Docs, we’ll be releasing an update to the Google integration within the next couple of weeks that allows students and teachers to use Google Apps for Education accounts. Currently, NoodleBib will not permit you to use a Google Apps for Education account (only a personal Google account). Stay tuned!

The user’s guide (online version and PDF version) has been updated to cover the recent NoodleBib upgrade, including information about the Dashboard and Google Docs integration. Our goals for Friday, August 27th include (1) updating NoodleBib with the new student collaboration feature and modifying the user’s guide to cover those changes, (2) updating the NoodleBib overview tour, and (3) updating the Powerpoint presentations we have online. The following week, we’ll be working hard on updating and adding new screencast tutorials.

As a side note, we’ve been looking at the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style to determine what changes will be required in NoodleBib. We’ll post to the blog when we have a timeline worked out for that.

We expect to have a period of downtime tomorrow, Wednesday, August 4th, in order to make some hardware changes. Since some of the changes involve assistance from a Dell technician, we do not currently have the exact time window for the downtime. We will add comments to this post tomorrow as we get more information about the timing. Our hope is that it will be in the late afternoon, but it may depend on the technician’s availability.

8/4/10, 8:00 AM – Some maintenance has already started, and the site may be unavailable at times throughout today. We apologize for the inconvenience today — unfortunately this wasn’t something that could wait for the weekend. If you are unable to access the site, please try again in an hour.