My son is just now having to leave college because some instructors can't seem to figure out how to get everything electronic: instead, he comes home with a pile of papers and, because of his learning disability, these end up lost. Online he can find anything and hand things in, etc.
From an instructors point of view, I get it that either they work with text on paper or generate text via Word. What I think would help them is to have a kind of drag and drop system where they would make the pdf file (via Word or a copy machine that generates OCR PDFs); next a template of pre-designed text boxes, radio buttons, etc. would appear side by side the pdf file, and then these can be dragged onto the pdf file.
Does such a system or software exist? Seems that everything requires re-entering, re-softwaring, and a load more work. A drag and drop is elegantly simple.
Jerry
Easy way for teachers to make work interactive
2010-11-11 05:53:50
Answered
My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.7, Windows
Acrobat Pro 8.1.7, Windows
2010-11-11 09:07:22
#1
Can you describe in more detail how the text boxes, radio buttons, etc. would be used by the student? Would it be for a test, an assignment, or something else?
2010-11-11 09:40:47
#2
Good question. It's more complex than what meets the eye. Assuming that all issues have been addressed in regard to online security and access at the server level, and that the teacher needs only to prepare documents for students to answer and then uploads to the server, then my thought is that the documents would primarily be tests, but could be assignments: really, anything the teacher gives to a student that requires the student answer something and then hand it back in.
Maybe it's just a matter of my own lack of exploration. I've never been a guy who uses icons, but just now placed the form icons in the submenu. I see that double clicking adds fields to the page. Hmmm. That's simple enough. Maybe what I need to know is how to re-set the defaults in the form fields. So, for an example, if I wanted the text field to always be multi-line by default, I can set that somewhere. A cursory look doesn't readily show me how to do this.
Maybe it's just a matter of my own lack of exploration. I've never been a guy who uses icons, but just now placed the form icons in the submenu. I see that double clicking adds fields to the page. Hmmm. That's simple enough. Maybe what I need to know is how to re-set the defaults in the form fields. So, for an example, if I wanted the text field to always be multi-line by default, I can set that somewhere. A cursory look doesn't readily show me how to do this.
2010-11-11 09:55:28
#3
If you set up a field like you want the default to be, and then right-click, you should see where you can select "Use Current Properties as New Defaults". Fields of the same type added subsequently will have the same properties.
2011-03-22 12:18:37
#4
Maybe the school and instructors might find AcroTEx eDucational System Tools helpful. The company was founded by D.P. Story, PhD, a retired Theoretical and Applied Mathematics professor at the University of Akron.