Online Docs...

Hi...

I am currently looking to try out online 'office packages'. I have tried Google Docs and Zoho and am looking for further suggestions.

I am in the academic field and what I am intending to do is to create and post lectures and presentations, which can be accessed online by students of the relevant courses. I could, of course, create the documents etc offline and upload to the course website, but I think it is better if I leave out the reliance on offline apps (in my case it is Office 2007).

Of critical importance is the following:

1. The docs I create will necessarily have footnotes and endnotes etc. Thus the online suite should be able to handle them. The most common docs I will be posting will be docx., pdf, and only occasionally xls.

2. The online suite should have mass mailing features - this will allow me to send docs to the students at one shot. As far as I can see, Zoho has this capability - though I don't know how robust this is.

3. The suite should also have a 'public space', where students can post their comments, questions etc. Ideally, I would like the students to post their coursework online such that I can access them on-the-fly. It would be even better that if each student's online submission was tied to an email feature that could email me as soon as the online post is made. I could pick this up either on my laptop and/ or on my phone. This would be great!

Naturally, as per the Univ. rules, the students will also have to hand in 'hard copies' - but that is another matter.

I would say that these are the basic things I am looking to do.apps. Maybe you have another suggestion that can help me to accomplish the same?

Thanks in advance.

 

openoffice

 

I thought Openoffice was a MS Office clone and resided on the user machine! I am looking for pure online solutions.

Cheers!

 

Have you checked out scribd??

http://www.scribd.com/

 

Hmmm...thanks! Did not know about this! Am checking it out now.

Cheers!