sharing documents with annotations with students w/out Outlook

[Deborah McLendon]

Our English teachers want to use OneNote to receive a Word document from
students, mark it with corrections, and send the marked-up annotated document
back to the student for review. Of course, the students don't have OneNote,
nor do they have Exchange with Outlook as their email server.

Is there an easy way for students to have access to these annotated
documents from OneNote? Actually, I'm open to any suggestions/solutions
whether they involve OneNote or not.

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

When you e-mail OneNote files the e-mail is an HTML message with the notes
contained therein. Any e-mail client that can render HTML can read them.
You need Outlook (2003) to send them...but not to receive them.


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[RK Henry]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:58:47 -0800, "Deborah McLendon" <Deborah

Our English teachers want to use OneNote to receive a Word document from
students, mark it with corrections, and send the marked-up annotated document
back to the student for review. Of course, the students don't have OneNote,
nor do they have Exchange with Outlook as their email server.

Is there an easy way for students to have access to these annotated
documents from OneNote? Actually, I'm open to any suggestions/solutions
whether they involve OneNote or not.

I think a better solution is to turn on change tracking in Word
(tools..track changes or ctrl+shift+E), mark up the corrections in the
document, add comments as needed in Word, and send the marked-up,
commented Word .doc file back to the student. The whole operation can
be performed in Word. I don't see what more that OneNote could
contribute to the process.

RK Henry

 

[Ricochet]

I think he likes the mark-up (with a pen) on the docs, instead of using the
comments and track changes features in Word. It's much more intuitive than
Word's track changes to see and understand...

 

[Prilosec]

Not really. Some people are just too stubborn to use anyting but a pen! The
collaboration features built into Word are very powerful and SIMPLE to use.
Most of the students probably have Word already.
I'm glad people are finding uses for this software and for tablet PCs, but
in this situation I think you have to cater to the common denominator--Word.

 

[ricochet]

Just b/c Word has the capability to embed comments and track changes,
most people who edit work from other people _print_ it out, and then
mark it up with a pen. It's easier to read on paper than on screen,
and it's easier to focus on the content rather than using tools on the
computer to make your comments. In this case, only the teacher needs
OneNote, not every student.

Tracking changes is great for team collaboration environments, but for
a one-on-one feedback editing session, markup is better. Let people
use what works the best for the situation instead of talking down to
those asking for a different way. Just b/c it's different doesn't mean
the person is being STUBBORN.