5. Synchronous activities may include chat sessions, whiteboard drawings, and other group interactive work.
If your class involves multimedia tools, synchronous communication might involve audio or video feeds to the computer
6. Is its immediacy
You can send and receive information right away
The sense of immediacy is more like to solicit a timely response from people.
Synchronous collaboration, in general, is more interactive than asynchronous.
7. Synchronous collaboration is ideal when the collaboration needs to be immediate and spontaneous, like a conversation between two or more people. Using real-time chat, instant messaging, electronic whiteboarding, and other such tools is appropriate for virtual meetings, where parties in remote locations are expected to participate and ask questions. In many cases, these types of collaborations might serve as supplements to telephone conference calls.
8. Synchronous collaboration wouldn't be suitable for situations that call for less immediate response or where parties aren't able to respond right away. For example, it might not work as a way to collaborate with customers on new product design or development.
