re: Remove tracked changes (video)

Ron Owens — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:27:32 GMT

Winslow,

I think using Track Changes and Comments to grade student papers is a perfect scenario for these features. Students can write and hand off their assignments digitally. Then, you can add comments and/or corrections right there in the document. On long-term projects, students can use your comments while they continue to improve their documents with the Track Changes feature turned on. You can then review their changes and return the finished document with a final grade or continue the collaboration.

The only compatibility issues I think you might run into is if some students are using a newer version of Word while others are using an older version that does not use the ".docx" format. The newer ".docx" extension signifies the Office Open XML international standard for Office documents and is used by Word 2007 and 2010 for Windows, Word 2008 and 2011 for the Macintosh.

But maybe I'm not completely understanding you. Are you wanting to use another markup tool? One that doesn't entail using the keyboard? You mention digital pad or mouse. I'm wondering if you might be describing a Tablet PC or something like a Wacom graphics tablet. If so, you might consider the Inking feature. Here's a 2008 CNET article to give you an idea of what that looks like:

news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-9860886-68.html

I do think Track Changes and Comments might work better for you and your students, though, if that's an option.

Glad you like the blog!

re: Remove tracked changes (video)

Winslow1944 — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:12:52 GMT

I am a teacher who has students emailing many assignments. I work on iMacs and PCs. How can I grade students'

work by writing on their downloaded word documents and then email their work back to them with my grading notes on their documents by using a digital pad or mouse.

Great Blog

Winslow