This guide pertains to Ultra Course View.
If your course is in Original Course View, see the Original Course View tutorial collection.
What Is a Cloud Collaborative Document?
The ability to add a document to a course shell that students can collectively edit and collaborate on, can be done by creating a Collaborative Document. Collaborative Documents can be a Microsoft Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet. If you wish to add a document to your course from the Cloud that students cannot edit, see the Embed a Cloud Document tutorial. To create a Collaborative Document, files must be located on OneDrive and all users must have a Microsoft account. Every current employee and students actively enrolled in and registered for courses has OneDrive and Microsoft accounts associated with their CMU Global ID account.
Collaborative Document Creation
From the location in the course where the document is desired, click the purple plus icon > Create:
In the side panel menu that appears, select Cloud Collaboration:
At the next screen:
- Identify the type of document (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint)
- Select your document. You will be taken to a screen showing your OneDrive access and be able to navigate from there to the desired document.
- Give the document a name.
- Enter a description of the document or instructions for what is expected of students
Once finalized, click Save.
Once Bb has finalized the Collaborative Document, you will see a Success! confirmation appear on the screen then the document will open. If desired, add additional configurations > Save.
Collaborating & Editing the Document
To edit a Collaborative Document, click on the document title > Edit Document:
In Edit Mode the document opens into SharePoint, where edits/comments can be made. Consider turning on Track Changes for Everyone. Edits and comments made to the document are automatically save.