Saving a Word Doc as a Rich Text Document
There is no guarantee that all of your students will use or have Microsoft Word so it's best to provide a format available to the widest audience. For those who don't have Microsoft Word it can be very frustrating to not have access to course content saved in Word Doc (.DOC) format. This easy guide will prevent this frustration and show you a best practice for placing Word-genereated document files in your course. The basic rule is when you upload document created in word to your course, make sure it's Rich Text Formatted (.RTF) - a universal format that is easy to create!
Creating the file
- First of all, open your Word Document in Microsoft Word.
- Next, in Word go to File then Save As. This is how you tell Word what you want to save the file as. You can save in various formats and the format we'll use here is .RTF or "Rich Text Format".
- In the Save As menu, click the dropdown menu at the bottom of the window titled "Save as type". Scroll down this menu until you find "Rich Text Format". It should be about the 4th selection from the top of the list.
- Now, click Save. The result of this operation is that you now have an entirely new RTF file in addition to your original Word document, the Word document will not be overwritten or deleted. You can now provide the new RTF file to your students. The Rich Text document will look the same as your Word document in most cases. RTF is a great format to use because all word processors can read it. Thanks to this universality, you now have a document that you can provide to students who don't have Microsoft Word.
Uploading the Rich Text file
- Now that you have your RTF file, you'll need to put it up in ANGEL. Locate and enter your course and navigate to the spot you would like to place the file.
- Using Add Content and Add a File you can upload the file to it's destination.
