Facebook announces Groups for Schools

PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook has announced Groups for Schools, which will allow people with an active school email address to join groups at their college or university, The Next Web reports.

According to an update on Facebook’s Announcements page by engineer Michael Novati, users will soon be able to see what’s happening on campus by joining various groups.

Facebook says, “We are also introducing file sharing for these groups, to make it even easier to share lecture notes, sports schedules or class assignments.”

Groups for Schools will gradually be rolling out to colleges and universities around the world. Users can sign up to find out when it will be available at their school. Facebook is encouraging users to make sure that they are able to work out the new feature by pointing them to the Help Center.