Wikispaces was a

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based in San Francisco, California. Launched by Tangient LLC in March 2005, Wikispaces was purchased by

Tes Global ''Tes'', formerly known as the ''Times Educational Supplement'', is a weekly UK publication aimed at education professionals. It was first published in 1910 as a pull-out supplement in ''The Times'' newspaper. Such was its popularity that in 19 ...

(formerly TSL Education) in March 2014. It competed with

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, and

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(formerly JotSpot). It was among the largest wiki hosts. In September 2014, Tes announced that free hosting of non-educational wikis would cease. Those wikis faced a 14 November 2014 shutdown deadline. Only wikis used exclusively in

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or higher education would remain free. Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and educators remained available for an annual fee. Wikispaces also gave away more than 100,000 premium wikis to K–12 educators. Since 2010, Wikispaces had cooperated with

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education platform

Glogster EDU Glogster is a cloud-based (SaaS) platform for creating presentations and interactive learning. A platform that allows users, mostly students and educators to combine text, images, video, and audio to create an interactive, Web-based poster call ...

. Glogster EDU embedded Glogs into Wikispaces services. Due to cost issues, classroom and free-level Wikispaces closed on July 31, 2018, while private Wikispaces closed on January 31, 2019.

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