Word: Track Changes and Collaboration

Objectives

Students will:

  • Understand the options available in the Review Tab
  • Be able to Compare and Combine two documents using available tools
  • Understand options available to Share

Outline

  • Hook
  • Review Tab Overview
    • Tracking group
      • Markup (show and drop down0
      • Reviewing pane (not very useful but explain)
      • Advanced Options
        • How to change their name for an individual file or for all files
    • Changes group
    • Proofing group
    • Comments group
      • Hot key – ctrl/cmd + alt + m
  • Combine
    • Show how to combine multiple documents so that all tracked changes are in one file
    • POSSIBLE ACTIVITY: see activity area for instructions
  • Conclusion
    • Recap and Questions
    • Show Media Center contact information for future help

Possible Questions for Understanding

  • Track Changes
    • How do we turn on track changes?
    • What happens to any changes to your document while track changes is on?
    • What is the purpose for track changes?
    • How do you change the markup level?
  • Comments
    • How do you insert comments?
    • How do comments appear when simple markup is selected?

Hook

Demo making table of contents or another hook of your own.

Activity

Use the “Original Grading Exams(trackChanges).docx” to perform all the track changes lessons. Then use the Revised Grading Exams(compare-combine).docx to show the combine functionality.

wordCollaboration

Possible Activity Breakdown

Incorporating Student changes into the teacher document on screen

  1. After teaching the class about track changes and commenting, have them upload their files to the google drive folder “class changes”.
  2. Download the documents the class changed and perform a combine.
  3. WARNING
    1. Be careful which classes you do this with. The first time I tried, there were problems because a lot of the class didn’t know how to save the file and then find it, nor were they able to upload it. It ended up taking up more time than planned and we didn’t get to the combine.

If this doesn’t seem like a good option, use the files in the google drive folder to demonstrate a combine.