PDFs and eSign Have Saved Me Time | Teachers Using PDF Editors

Опубликовано: 02 Октябрь 2024
на канале: Foxit Education

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Recorded from a Thought Leader Panel webinar.

I'm Caleb Sanders. I'm a teacher in Wyoming, and I've written some activity books and various things that give ideas to classroom teachers. But I'm still teaching. This is like my 22nd year. I enjoy it. I coach. I'm just riding the trenches with a lot of you. It's definitely somewhat new, editing PDFs and then annotating PDFs. That part is not necessarily new. I mean, we had to start annotating PDFs more as a teacher when probably right before COVID a little bit.

When I started using some other programs where students submitted their work on these programs, and the easiest way to have them submit work or create an assignment was with a PDF. So I'd create a PDF, it would go out to the students, and they could either write on it, send it back, and then I could annotate my feedback, which is something I love about PDF.

I just love those tools. Especially when they're writing essays, short answer responses, like, in the world that I live in as a teacher and as a coach, when I'm communicating with parents, when I'm sending out schedules, whether it's athletic schedules or whether it's a letter to a parent about, hey, we're going to watch this movie in class, or we're going to do this activity in class. I need something that parents can receive, possibly sign, but just let's talk about the receiving part for a second. It seems to be that PDFs are compatible when they go through to a phone. For me, they're compatible than a lot of other documents that parents receive through whatever mobile device or whatever format they're getting it in. So I love that about PDFs because I know that they're going to read it and it's not going to be messed up when they get it.

And then the awesome thing about Foxit PDFs is that they have the E-signature, which I have actually used. Not a ton, but I have used. And since I'm on the topic of E-signatures, I write lots of letters of recommendations for students. I mean, every year, lots of those. And I love that feature with E-signature that I can just do that instead of taking extra steps where I'd have to take it to a copy machine, scan it onto a USB drive, first of all, sign it, scan it, get it back to my computer. I mean, there's just so many extra steps, and having the E-signature cuts out a lot of those steps.

Like on the editing side, too, I'm transferring a lot of what I do when I'm creating documents or if I'm creating activities, there's a lot more that I can do on the editing side with Foxit PDF. So I like that and I'm still learning it.

Caleb Sanders books and guides for middle school and high school social studies teachers: https://www.teachersdiscovery.com/cat...

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