IC3/Document Collaboration

Document and file collaboration are the tools or systems set up to help multiple people work together on a single document or file to achieve a single final version.^[1]

This lesson introduces document collaboration and helps learners prepare for the IC³ Key Applications certification exam.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the document collaboration portion of IC³ certification include: Skills^[2]

Comments: Review comments, accept or reject, add comments
Sharing files: Share using email, network storage, cloud

Readings

Multimedia

Activities

Review Track changes and complete the GCF Learn Free Track Changes tutorial. Use Microsoft Word to create a document and enable change tracking. Add comments to the document, then accept or reject comments.
Complete one or more of the following tutorials:

Lesson Summary

Document and file collaboration are the tools or systems set up to help multiple people work together on a single document or file to achieve a single final version.^[3]
Document or file collaboration today is a system allowing people to collaborate across different locations using an Internet, or "cloud", enabled approach.^[4]
New cloud collaboration technologies have allowed users to upload, comment and collaborate on documents and even amend the document itself, evolving the document within the cloud.^[5]
Popular collaboration services include Google, Microsoft, WebEx, Jive Software, eXo Platform, Synaptop and Salesforce.com.^[6]
ProjectWise is project collaboration software from Bentley Systems designed for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries.^[7]
The ability to collaborate has become more and more necessary with an increasingly mobile workforce and in an increasingly globalized world where even smaller companies will have offices and clients positioned all over the world.^[8]
Wikipedia is an example of a collaborative editing project on a large scale.^[9]

Key Terms

cloud collaboration: A newly emerging way of sharing and co-authoring computer files through the use of cloud computing, whereby documents are uploaded to a central "cloud" for storage where they can be accessed by others.^[10]
cloud computing: A kind of Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand.^[11]
cloud storage: A model of data storage in which the digital data is stored in logical pools, the physical storage spans multiple servers (and often locations), and the physical environment is typically owned and managed by a hosting company.^[12]
collaborate/collaboration: A purposeful relationship in which all parties strategically choose to cooperate in order to achieve shared or overlapping objectives.^[13]
collaborative editing: The practice of groups producing works together through individual contributions^[14]
collaborative software: An application software designed to help people involved in a common task to achieve their goals.^[15]
comment: Allows reviewers to provide feedback and express opinions without charging the content of the document.^[16]
document centric collaboration: A new approach to working together on projects online which puts the document and its contents at the centre of the process.^[17]
markup: The revision marks and annotations that appears in a document.^[18]
metadata: Data that describes other data.^[19]
soft copy: A document located and saved on a computer. It is edited and opened by the software program where it was saved.^[20]
software framework: An abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software.^[21]
track changes options: Dialog box used to change color and markings reviewers use for tracked changes.^[22]

Review Questions

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____ are the tools or systems set up to help multiple people work together on a single document or file to achieve a single final version .

Document and file collaboration are the tools or systems set up to help multiple people work together on a single document or file to achieve a single final version.
____ is a way of sharing and co-authoring computer files whereby documents are uploaded to a central "cloud" for storage where they can be accessed by others.

Cloud collaboration is a way of sharing and co-authoring computer files whereby documents are uploaded to a central "cloud" for storage where they can be accessed by others.
What is a network where files are uploaded to a library on the Internet?

A network where files are uploaded to a library on the internet is the cloud.
____ is an application software designed to help people involved in a common task to achieve their goals.

Collaborative Software is an application software designed to help people involved in a common task to achieve their goals.
____ is a system allowing people to collaborate across different locations using internet or a cloud enabled approach.

Document and file collaboration is a system allowing people to collaborate across different locations using internet or a cloud enabled approach.

Assessments

Flashcards: Quizlet: Using Document Collaboration and Integration Tools
Flashcards: Quizlet: Sharing Documents
Quiz: Quizlet: Using Document Collaboration and Integration Tools
Quiz: Quizlet: Sharing Documents
Quiz: File Sharing

References

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[1] Wikipedia: Document collaboration

[2] IC³ GS4 Key Applications Skills Measured

[3] Wikipedia: Document collaboration

[4] Wikipedia: Document collaboration

[5] Wikipedia: Cloud collaboration

[6] Wikipedia: Cloud collaboration

[7] Wikipedia: ProjectWise

[8] Wikipedia: Document-centric collaboration

[9] Wikipedia: Collaborative editing

[10] Wikipedia: Cloud collaboration

[11] Wikipedia: Cloud computing

[12] Wikipedia: Cloud storage

[13] Wikipedia: Collaboration

[14] Wikipedia: Collaborative Editing

[15] Wikipedia: Collaborative software

[16] Quizlet Lesson 14 Sharing Documents

[17] Wikipedia: Document-centric collaboration

[18] Quizlet Lesson 14 Sharing Documents

[19] ttps://quizlet.com/104957972/lesson-14-sharing-documents-flash-cards/

[20] Quizlet Lesson 14 Sharing Documents

[21] Wikipedia: Software framework

[22] Quizlet Chapter 8-Using Document Collaboration and Integration Tools

[23] ttp://www.creativebloq.com/author/craig-stewart

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