The new academic year is just around the corner for many educational institutions. With it will come the usual concerns about students and their learning and the sometimes sneaky ways some will employ to avoid working. This is where some may turn to gazhoo: Content Marketplace.

They’ve taken a great idea of sharing content via the web and marketed it to a variety of users: business, legal, marketing and students. Users upload their material “for which he owns all relevant copyrights”. gazhoo reviews the document and then posts it the next day for others to download for free or for a fee (range is posted at $1-$100). I saw many available for free.

I think many of the documents could be very helpful to use as a final document, a template or to generate ideas. You can search using their categories on the home page and then narrow your search using their nicely consolidated tags. I tried downloading and the process was very easy. I ended up picking a free document but if I had picked one for a fee, I could have paid with PayPal or an account at gazhoo.

I’m sure you’ve deduced that a likely audience is students. And with their Facebook application, certainly they are. So, beware the possible misuse, but as some parents insist, my child would *never* do that, no?