Graham

When I was at Oaklands in the early days of getting buy in to the VLE we deliberately created a service to support this – which required some initial support from the eLearning and technology Support team to get administrators really comfortable with putting the finished product on the VLE (or more accurately teaching them to use the VLE competently to do that). We created a specific administration position to support this which was very effective in training up the administrators quickly. The only down side to this was that it encouraged some teaching staff not to engage with the VLE at all (preferring to leave it to the administrator) but to be fair it had more of an upside in that many more teachers did engage because it gave them the time to concentrate on the pedagogic aspects rather than getting bogged down with lots of administrative tasks. I suppose the lesson learned here is that when doing this one needs to guard against the service being abused (however you might define that).

We deliberately did not go down a technological route (ie handwriting recognition) because we wanted to get staff to concentrate on the core requirements not get distracted by yet more technology (which for some would have been an even bigger ‘turn off’).

Hope that helps

Look at Omni Scan cheap versions are available from Serif!

At 14:18 08/12/2008, you wrote:

Hi
not strictly a VLE question but I'm hopeful. We often get handwritten notes
brought to us to put into our VLE. Does anybody know of any good hand
writing recognition software that might help convert these notes if we scan
them in or something?
We know there are digi memo pads but by the time the notes have got to us it
is too late for that. Any suggestions / ideas?
Thanks

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