Discursive Work in OnlyOffice
1 July 2023, by eBüroGW-Team
OnlyOffice is a collaborative office platform that allows all OpenOlat members to edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations together in real time and track each other's changes directly. Thus, using OnlyOffice in seminars can actively involve all course members in tasks and solutions. OnlyOffice is also ideal for collaboration on projects, research papers or presentations. Especially for this purpose, it is very advantageous that OnlyOffice can be used flexibly and independently of the browser or operating system and uses common Word, Excel or PowerPoint file formats.
In the following, two possible uses of OnlyOffice at UHH are presented in order to provide discursive work:
- Firstly, it is possible to integrate OnlyOffice documents in an OpenOlat course: For this purpose, existing documents can be shared or documents can be created together. For instructions on how to use OnlyOffice in OpenOlat, click on this link (available in German).
- By using the OnlyOffice environment in the UHH Cloud, it is also possible to work on documents independently of the course, either collaboratively or individually. You can access the UHH Cloud via this link.
Both for your own work and for the design of courses, it is a good idea to explore the plug-ins to be found in OnlyOffice. These can be useful, for example, to recognise texts on pictures by OCR and to insert them into the documents or to create professional diagrams with draw.io. Translating texts, embedding YouTube videos or creating bibliographies is also easily possible in the OnlyOffice application.
For more information on the topic, please visit our OpenOlat-Rundgang (available in German) directly on the website.