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item	Creating Forms in MS Word
contact	Alan Levine (District Office) alan.levine@domail.maricopa.edu 1 of 30 packages by Alan Levine
college(s)	District Office
discipline(s)	all
summary	Learn how to create a structured form in MS Word, e.g. a document where users can only edit designated portions of the documents, useful for forms or creating standard project report forms.
details	Have you ever had the need to provide documents/template for your students where they responded to a structured set of questions? This demo show you how to create a "MS Word Form", where users can enter specific information in fields, select choices from drop down menus, or indicate choices by check boxes. Some advantages of using this approach are: * No special software beyond Word required (but students will need access to Word) * The information returned is consistently formatted * You can limit the amount of text returned * You can create formatted numerical input (Date, time, decimal) * With some elbow grease (and patience with the quirks of Word), you can create spread-sheet like calculated fields. * The document can have portions locked from changes by the student * The student can save the document to their hard drive and go back at any time to finish his/her work. (PDF forms read in Acrobat Reader do not save content) * The student can save a copy of their document and/or email it to an instructor We have been using this for the past year in the application forms for Faculty Professional Growth and the mcli Learning Grants. but there are adjust as likely some creative instructional uses you may dream up. If you use the space_report.doc example, you can unlock it by using the password: go2space Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback via the comments form below.
web links	http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/olg/notes.php?yr=0203&id=3#wordform Ocotillo Online Learning Group meeting (Oct 4, 2002) when we did this as a hands on demo http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/fpg/myfpg,html MyFPG, a site where we have created Word forms used for Faculty Professional Growth Applications http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/lta/archives/lta25.php Low Threshold Application of the Week #25 This technique was featured by the TLTGroup in this collection of useful faculty support ideas.
supplements	These items are licensed under a Creative Commons License Making Word Forms (document) making_word_forms.doc (254.0 kB) Space Report (final product) (document) space_report.doc (35.5 kB) Space Report Template file used in this activity (document) space_report_template.doc (41.5 kB) Learning Grant application (demo example of complex form) (document) lg_app_demo.doc (248.5 kB) Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback below.
comments [20 comment(s)]	Most recent comment about this package: On Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 1:05AM Lindsey <brigati@rice.edu> said: This was a great tutorial. It was very clear in its intent: making fillable word forms and the instructions were very simple. The only thing I would add to it to step the project's utlity up a notch is to provide a way for the teacher once she recieves these .doc to link each file to a scoring guide template. That way the teacher could send back the files to her students. Basically I realize that you are trying to use this "teacher quiz" senario as an example. I would like the example to go two steps further. 1. A method of linking each Space Report.doc to a scoring guide template. So the teacher could easily electronically grade each report and send the grade to each student. 2. Show how those grades could be linked to the teacher's grade book (an excell file). That would be amazing. I think that would be a useful application of this fillable ms word tutorial with real world applications. Good Job though!!!!
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