Cloud Collaborative Document

 

 

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:

 

Create Menu Option

In the side panel menu that appears, select Cloud Collaboration:

Cloud Collaboration

 

At the next screen:

  1. Identify the type of document (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint)
  2. 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.
  3. Give the document a name.
  4. Enter a description of the document or instructions for what is expected of students

Once finalized, click Save.

Collaborative Document Creation

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:

Collaborative Document Editing

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 saved.  

Uses for a Collaborative Cloud Document

Collaborative Cloud Documents can be used for these applications:

  • Presentation topic sign-up or presentation date/time slot
  • Group Role selection
  • Brainstorming/Presentation development
  • Glossary
  • Class introduction activity
  • Gallery Walk - sharing of presentations among teams. Instructor would upload a PowerPoint file that identifies where in the slide deck, each team adds their team's presentation slides to create one slide deck of all presentations.
  • Muddiest Point
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