How to integrate teacher's notes into student class materials?
November 14, 2013 8:39 AM Subscribe
I am working on student materials for classes that I and others will be teaching. We have a need for a "teacher version" of the student materials that consists of the student materials with teaching notes inserted in various places. Currently, I have been doing this by making handwritten notes on my copy of the student materials for a given lesson. Is there a better solution for this?
I don't want to do separate documents, because then any revision to the student materials must be made in two places.
I currently use OpenOffice Writer for the student materials, but if I had to, I could probably convert to Word or another word processor.
Here is a very brief example of what I'm trying to accomplish. Of course, this will need to be done multiple places per lesson, so the less cumbersome the method, the better.
Here is some text for the students...this should appear both in the student materials and in the "teacher's version."
[Now here is some text that the teacher should see but not the students.]
Here is some more text that should appear in both versions.
I don't want to do separate documents, because then any revision to the student materials must be made in two places.
I currently use OpenOffice Writer for the student materials, but if I had to, I could probably convert to Word or another word processor.
Here is a very brief example of what I'm trying to accomplish. Of course, this will need to be done multiple places per lesson, so the less cumbersome the method, the better.
Here is some text for the students...this should appear both in the student materials and in the "teacher's version."
[Now here is some text that the teacher should see but not the students.]
Here is some more text that should appear in both versions.
OpenOffice and Word have a comments feature. Looks somewhat like that. You should be able to turn comments on and off or could just save one student's copy and one with teacher's annotations. Hope that helps.
posted by travelwithcats at 9:39 AM on November 14, 2013
posted by travelwithcats at 9:39 AM on November 14, 2013
I think Word comments (OpenOffice probably has a similar feature) would probably accomplish this functionality. This page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286169 has a guide for that.
It would appear from this forum help thread that open office supports something similar.
Basically your workflow would be to make the [text only the teacher should see] a comment, and then either print with or without these depending on which you were distributing.
posted by codacorolla at 2:10 PM on November 14, 2013
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286169 has a guide for that.
It would appear from this forum help thread that open office supports something similar.
Basically your workflow would be to make the [text only the teacher should see] a comment, and then either print with or without these depending on which you were distributing.
posted by codacorolla at 2:10 PM on November 14, 2013
Response by poster: Word/OpenOffice comments could work. However, I'm going to sometimes have text that's too long to work well with comments, I think. I could do those as a one-off in a different document or something, I guess.
I was thinking that ideally I'd rather have the supplemental text inserted inline with the rest of the text. However, I realize that would also mess up page numbering so maybe that isn't the best plan either.
I'd still love to hear other ideas, but for now I'll investigate the comments plan. Thanks!
posted by greenmagnet at 2:47 PM on November 14, 2013
I was thinking that ideally I'd rather have the supplemental text inserted inline with the rest of the text. However, I realize that would also mess up page numbering so maybe that isn't the best plan either.
I'd still love to hear other ideas, but for now I'll investigate the comments plan. Thanks!
posted by greenmagnet at 2:47 PM on November 14, 2013
If you can do handwritten comments for the maximum length comments then the comments feature should be able to cope. Anything with text in the text flow will reqire at least two versions of the document to be maintained.
Personally, I'd prefer word comments to handwritten notes because I'd want to add my own notes as part of prep and that's a lot simpler if your handwriting is not all over this thing and I can review your comments and hide/unhide in my version as I see fit. Clearly that may not be your intention and your fellow presenters may be less fussy.
I facilitate a bunch if training for work which is developed centrally and we get the sort if ppt with speaker notes stuff RB mentioned. I read the speaker notes but I never print the stuff off with notes, I use a copy of the student version with my handwritten comments to prep and occasionally refer back to this to facilitate the sessions.
posted by koahiatamadl at 1:05 AM on November 15, 2013
Personally, I'd prefer word comments to handwritten notes because I'd want to add my own notes as part of prep and that's a lot simpler if your handwriting is not all over this thing and I can review your comments and hide/unhide in my version as I see fit. Clearly that may not be your intention and your fellow presenters may be less fussy.
I facilitate a bunch if training for work which is developed centrally and we get the sort if ppt with speaker notes stuff RB mentioned. I read the speaker notes but I never print the stuff off with notes, I use a copy of the student version with my handwritten comments to prep and occasionally refer back to this to facilitate the sessions.
posted by koahiatamadl at 1:05 AM on November 15, 2013
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You can link a word document to your PowerPoint, so any changes made will automatically be updated. You can print the presentation for the students and a separate one for instructors.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 8:50 AM on November 14, 2013