Are they ready for some collaboration?

In every class you hear the dreaded words "group project" and your palms start sweating, heart starts racing, and eyeballs roll all the way back in your head...why? ... because until now it was just such a pain to parse out the duties and keep track of the work involved in group work. Collaboration tools like Google Docs and spresent can certainly take some of the pain away and should be used for both on-campus and online students for their group work. I have only been in this program for a year and thinking back to my first group project and the weekly phone calls and 3 trillion emails back and forth to put together a PowerPoint presentation literally gives me hives.... If only I, or my professor, had known about these tools life would have been much better (shout out to Sue for our weekly phone calls!). So the short answer to "would it make project creation easier/faster?" is YES YES YES YES YES.

But the real question..."would professors accept them"...
I think within our academic community there is as big a mixed bag of skills as anywhere - there are some professors who are completely on top of all that is new and helpful and some professors who may as well be taking notes on a stone tablet. Each professor has the apparent flexibility to set their own technological requirements so trying to get some to think outside their box just wont happen. The best case scenario would be teaching the students the value of the tools and making it so easy for the professors to view the final work that they would not care how it was created.