Document notation and teacher upload

Document notation and teacher upload

by Greig Tardiani -
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Is there a way that Teachers can use the assignment module where students upload a doc file or similar and then the teacher can download it, anotate it (put comments on it) and then upload it back to the assignment so that the student can look at the assignment doc and see the comments made in the appropriate place in the doc.

This is the same as if a student handed in a printed doc and then you would commnt over the assignment so that the student had feedback and be able to improve their ability to answer this type of question.

I know that we can use the online text assignment but that does not allow students to easly create their documents as it would be in Word etc with images, tables etc.

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Re: Document notation and teacher upload

by Mary Cooch -
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Hello there. Yes -that is exactly what the advanced uploading of files assignment lets you do. There's a (really hurried and pretty bad!) demo here
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Re: Document notation and teacher upload

by Marc Grober -
You might want to consider the online PDF marking assignment module.
http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2350&filter=1

MS Word files are often much larger than files with same information in other formats, there are format issues doc vs docx
I have also used an OpenOffice macro to markup pdfs

I did post some notes a bit ago about php based applications (such as a php spread sheet) that one could arguably integrate with Moodle and of course, if you can use Google Docs which makes everything much easier, especially if you sync up a google apps domain. The latter is very nice in that google docs tracks changes and allows comparisons, as well as provides you with the ability to add notes. There is no uploading downloading involved and students can collaborate on a doc as well.

WHile Google docs will often give people headaches because of style sheet issues, I think the apps will continue to improve and for those using style tags it wouldn't hurt for them to have a bit of a lesson in using CSS
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