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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 make sure it is in the Document page along the bottom.
  3. Align the orange square with the document and press the round button. If there are multiple pages in your document, continue taking photos of your document at this stage.

Taking a picture of a document with Office Lens

4. Click the orange circle button to confirm you document page/s.

Confirming the image taken of a document with Office Lens

5. Adjust the border around your document if necessary by dragging the corners to the necessary position. If the image is unsuitable, click Retake. When you are happy with the image, click Confirm.

Adjusting the borders of the document image in Office Lens

6. Make any edits your document. Here you can Add more pages, add FiltersCrop the document, Rotate the document and look at the More options. When ready, click Done.

Making edits to a document image and confirming in Office Lens

7. You can now save your document. There are a few options available such as saving it as a PDF to the device or saving it to your OneDrive. You can select more than one options. Once you have chose how to save your document, click the Save button.

Saving a document image in Office Lens

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


OneDrive logo


 Scanning documents and creating PDFs using the OneDrive app


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 blue 'Camera' button at the bottom right  of the App:

OneDrive app with files blurred out with camera icon in the bottom right corner

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):

Taking a picture of a document with OneDrive app

5After 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 borders of a document image in OneDrive app

6. Add pages if needed and make any adjustments using the options along the bottom. Once happy, click 'Done' 

Making edits and confirming document image in OneDrive app

7. Choose where you want to save your Document on OneDrive. (NOTE: it automatically saves the image as PDF, which is the required format). Click on the Tick button at the top to save it to your OneDrive: 

Saving document as a PDF in OneDrive

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


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