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Guidelines for students for scanning handwritten work and submitting it to Moodle Assignment

Outlined here are several methods that you can use to scan handwritten work.

Use the Microsoft Office App called Office on Android

Microsoft Office logo

Use the OneDrive integrated app

OneDrive logo

Use your own preferred device or app

  • Use a device or scanning app of your choice.
  • Upload your scanned work as PDF in Moodle as per the instructions at this LINK
  • NOTE: if you select this option, the University will not be able to provide support for third party technologies


Using the Microsoft Office App on iOS (called Office on Android)

Microsoft Office logo

For scanning documents and uploading them to OneDrive (STEPS 1-5) and then to Moodle Assignment (STEP 6)

  1. Download the app from your app store and if prompted login in with your university credentials.
  2. Open the app and select the '+' sign to start scanning. Then select 'Lens':

Microsoft Office app            Opening Lens in Microsoft Office app

3. Align the orange square with the document and press the round button:

Scanning a document on Lens

4. Add pages if needed, 'Edit' if needed, 'Save as PDF', 'Done':

Document scanned into Lens

5. 'Upload' to your OneDrive

Upload logo on Microsoft Office app         Upload details page in Microsoft Office app

6. Submit your PDF to Moodle Assignment https://workspace.nottingham.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=225977446


 Scanning documents and creating PDFs using the OneDrive app

OneDrive logo

How to scan documents and create PDFs from them using the OneDrive app (STEP 1-6).

How to upload your scanned document to Moodle Assignment (STEP 7)

  1. Go to your App Store (or equivalent) and download the OneDrive app. Log in using your University login (email address) and password.
  2. Open the App and locate the little 'Camera' button at the bottom of the App:

Camera logo in OneDrive app

3. This will open your camera (make sure you give the App access to your camera) and give your camera lens a little clean!

4. Make sure the mode at the bottom is on ‘Document’, the camera should show a blue outline (this may shift so get the camera into a straight position). This blue outline shows the camera detecting the outline of your document (to make this easier for the camera, try not to put the paper on a white background):

Photographing a document in OneDrive app

5. After you have taken the picture, you can move the border of the scan area so that you can trim it to size. Make the outline correspond with the boundaries of the paper:

Adjusting the editing the scanned document

6. Add pages if needed and press 'Done' and 'Save' to your OneDrive (NOTE: it automatically saves the image as PDF, which is the required format). On the Save as menu name your file as instructed by your tutor. Click the 'Tick' to save on your OneDrive:

7. Submit your PDF to Moodle Assignment following these instructions.

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