Among the features it offers to its users:
- It does not require any registration.
- It lets you annotate PDFs and pictures too.
- It allows you to share your marked up document and gives you a unique URL.
- You can collaborate with others so that you can all view and annotate the file.
- It lets you download the original file as well as the annotated version.
Here is a tutorial:
Application in the classroom:
How to integrate Crocodoc into the classroom:
- especially helpful for visual learners who need to see the text
- useful for peer editing
- students can submit their work to you using Crocodoc. You can add notes, highlight, and edit the document and “send” the revisions back to the students.
- share documents with your colleagues, this is an easy way to collaborate on lesson plans, educational articles, and presentations.
- students can use this tool to collaborate on group projects. It is simple to go back and forth on a document adding notes, text suggestions, highlight, and strikeout.
- many free e-books can be viewed as PDF files, upload the e-book to CrocodocPersonal and share the URL with students. Students can highlight and add sticky notes to the text as they read.
- if you use PowerPoint slides, upload the presenations to Crocodoc to share with students who were absent. Students who were absent can review the presentation, add notes, and type questions that they may have about the learning.