by scott hallman.
We are trying to move to full online marking and like the annotate tool and now you can submit odt and word docs. However having used Turnitin and Crocodoc in Blackboard these tools win hands down. We cannot afford Turnitin's mad pricing model even if only small percentage of our students will use it they base their pricing on the whole universities enrollment. So we would like to see the tool improved. Its a great tool but could do with a tweak or two.
Quick fixes.
- Change the font size in the text boxes
- Resize the text box once it has been made
- Allow the text boxes to be auto pushed to a margin on the side (like word track changes and BB safe assign crocodoc)
(We have to ask the students to complete their assignments using a template so we can get a white margin to add comments in without covering the assignment text.)
More tools
- word count (of the doc if possible as quite often this is a requirement for the assignment and there is no way to check unless you download it)
- have the document scroll not click page by page
- View a whole page at a time
- change the default colour of the text box