Dropbox has announced collaborations with Klaxoon, Pronto and WeVideo. Together with the companies, the storage service must expand its productivity services. The expansions are focused on education.
WeVideo’s video editing tool, Pronto’s real-time chat app and the polls, word clouds and other interactive tools from Klaxoon now get a Dropbox integration, reports Venturebeat. This should make it easier for users to share assignments, provide feedback and collaborate in groups.
The company also shared an update on its progress in the field of education. Between 2007 and 2018, the number of students, employees and administrators who became members of Dropbox Education increased by almost fifty percent. According to the company, these users added over 2.5 billion files to the cloud storage service last year.
Users are also more concerned with the integrations on the platform. For example, there is a 54 percent increase in users linking to one or more apps and a 33 percent increase among teams. It is not known how many schools and universities are now members of the service.
Integrations
With the new integrations, the number of Dropbox’s educational partners has once again increased. Dropbox Education was launched in 2016, and since then there have been collaborations with Blackboard, Canvas, Turnitin and others. However, the company has not yet been able to acquire a large part of the education market, where it competes with Microsoft Office 365 for Education and Google’s G Suite for Education. Both companies offer a productivity suite with cloud storage options.
In recent years, Dropbox has shifted its focus further and further to the intrusion of other services. For example, in November, the company announced Extensions, which allow users to customize a series of files without leaving the service. Extensions was made in collaboration with Vimeo, among others.
In October, Dropbox was one of the services that started working with Google to support G Suite’s Gmail Add-ons.
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