Thing 6: Creating and Editing Docs

Oh man, this has been an ongoing debate on our campus.  When students received their tablets they immediately wanted to use it like a laptop and use it to type their research papers.  However, their tablets were not meant to replace computers, only to supplement.

We explored several apps for creating and editing docs, including CloudOn, QuickOffice, Pages, GoogleDrive, and more.  These apps were great options for quick documents, but not for the editing features that students needed to polish assignments.  CloudOn didn't have all the editing tools students wanted, QuickOffice wasn't free, Pages looked different than Word, GoogleDrive required a Google Account.

But now, students are happily plugging along using Office365 and Microsoft Word for their tablet.  They have free accounts connected to their student email, which has made creating and editing documents on their tablets a much easier process and one that is much closer to the one with which they were familiar.