![]() I however, have found then OCR to be okay. They also have size limits on amount they can perform OCR on as tried to do a 100 + page document and it didn't like it. Takes bit of time as they upload it to their respective servers to perform the OCR if I remember right. At least with Edvance 360, I have a record of whether the student downloaded and opened the marked-up file-though I still wouldn't have any idea how much time they spent engaged with the commentary.Ĭlick to expand.I use Finescanner and or Scanbot. For all I know, they may discard it as soon as they get back at their dorms without engaging in the commentary at all. I can recall one or two students who merely glance at their grade, then tuck the paper away in their backpacks. (3) I get the desire to have a physical copy to conference with on students, but I'm not sure that students necessarily look at the comments on physically marked-up papers either. Do the PDF viewing programs that allow markup make that difficult in ways I'm unaware of? That seemed pretty natural to me, so I assumed (mistakenly?) that marking papers would work similarly. When I've messed around with drawing and sketching apps, I tended to use the gestural controls to zoom in on the 9.7 iPad so that only 50% of the "page" was visible at a time, then turn the iPad sideways, scrolling up or down if needed as I sketch. I have no trouble holding a 9.7 iPad and marking on it as a I walk, but I worry that the 12.9 would make my arm tired, and restrict me to counter-top grading. I'm a very ambulatory grader, tending to pace up and down the halls as I grade. I'm hesitant to use the 12.9 because of weight. ![]() (2) I understand the desire to have room to read and annotate comfortably. If that does prove too time-consuming, I do have an underutilized office worker that I could make do the work of e-mailing and attaching files one at a time. Returning papers might be the tricky issue or time-consuming part, as that would require e-mailing them individually. Mind you, my lads and lasses are all 18+ in age, typically around 21, and are reasonably tech savvy. I already require my students to submit projects electronically (usually one copy PDF, the other as Word), so I can use to check for plagiarism before printing out copies, so I don't think that will be any more fuss than it currently is. The Edvance360 program will automatically add the student's names to the file-name along with any prefix I want (like "Essay1" or whatever) to standardize them. I was planning on doing that on my laptop, then dumping the files onto my iPad all at once via iTunes. When the due date comes, the teacher clicks a button to export them all as a zip file. Right now, teachers at our university already have students submit their papers in electronic format in an online dropbox. (1) Rather than e-mail, I was thinking about using our school's online system, Edvance360. Here are my thoughts-please let me know if you think this would work. ![]() There's actually a fair bit of work you need to be prepared to do in order to make it all work. But then my essays are typically 2-4 pages, so I may be biased here. With soft copies, I don't even know if they will look at it, much less read my comments. It's also something physical which I can then return to the students and conference with them if necessary. I didn't have the Apple Pencil back then, but now that I am using it with my 9.7" iPad Pro, I can tell you that writing with it is a dream.ģ) Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer marking on paper. ![]() You will definitely want the 12.9" iPad Pro in portrait mode (which mimics A4 sized paper). The documents submitted will be stored in google drive, so link that to PDF expert for easy offline access.Ģ) I was trying this with the iPad 3, and I still found the screen too small for me to read and annotate comfortably. You might want to try google classroom for this. How you will get the assignments back to them is equally important. I know I found it frustrating because I was working with very young children (9-10 years) so maybe you will have an easier time here, given that you will be working with adults. You will likely need to mandate that your students type in a certain format to ensure you have sufficient space to annotate your comments, and maybe even require them to save their work in a particular format for easy sorting. You will need to open each email and then open the app in the PDF app of your choice. Perhaps the technology simply wasn't available back then but perhaps you may want to consider the following points first.ġ) How will you collate all their assignments? Email is actually pretty cumbersome. I am an elementary school teacher who tried this a few years back and gave up due to sheer frustration. ![]()
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