OrbitNote vs. Socialtext (discontinued)

I think OrbitNote is a great tool for all teachers to use to make paper assignments accessible to a variety of learners.

Incentivized

We use Social Text as a platform to air our issues with different departments. We voice our concerns and suggestions so we can help find a solution to the problems we incur on a daily basis. We need to have social text as an app so we can communicate in real time not only during work hours.

• OCR scanning.
• Text to speech.
• Annotation on worksheets.
• Integration with Google classroom.

Incentivized

• Version history - Always keeps the edited versions and one can revert back any time
• Creating and Editing an article is very easy and intutive
• Sharing the articles with peers

• Would like it to have a specific iPad app.
• Circle- shape tool difficult to use.

Incentivized

• Search needs a ton of improvements. It was very slow a year ago
• Search result quality was also not that good
• I know they have improved their UI recently but when i used it last year it did not really have any design elements which could be used to make the articles look more presentable. It was important for us as we used it for external communication as well.

We have a lot of info in Socialtext already. It would be hard to get all that info out and port it to a different system

I like how read&write integrates with OrbitNote making it where students do not have to learn multiple tools depending on what they are doing on the computer.

Incentivized

I frankly like Confluence better than socialtext because of the speed and the quality of search. They also have better design elements which can help make the articles pleasant to the eyes.

• It has made it possible for teachers to provide accessible materials to students with just a few clicks.

Incentivized

• We get solutions to concerns much faster
• We promote interactions with the other depts
• We listen and have discussions