Critical note
In the previous paragraphs we discussed and evaluated several tools using the group assignment for the course of Management Information systems as an example case. Despite the countless group works most students are assigned during their education at Ghent University virtually none of them use project management tools to plan, execute and control their group assignments. The following question arises: is this due to the fact that few students are familiar with these kinds of tools or are there other reasons why they are not widely used among students. In this case part of the answer more or less resides within the question. It is a fact that these tools are anything but well known among students, only students who took a project management course of some sort are acquainted with these types of tools. Now the question still remains why are they not used by students that are accustomed to them. This is perhaps due to the fact that from a student point of view these tools have certain drawbacks. The most important drawback is most likely the cost. Most of these tools are free only for a limited trial period, often even with limited features. After this period users have to pay a fee to continue to use the tool, this constitutes an obstacle for student users. It is on this level that the project management tools cannot compete with the free application that is most commonly used among students to communicate, share documents… when executing a group work namely facebook. Yet the cost does not constitute the only drawback, there are several others. At first there is the fact that, contrary to our example case, most of the time students do not receive an overview of all tasks that must be completed to execute the assignment accompanied by fairly detailed duration estimates. It is often the case that at the beginning of a group work the tasks that need to be