today we’re learning how to make a collaborative microsoft word document to begin visit office365.osu.edu and click log into office 365. next enter your ohio state credentials select onedrive from the list of microsoft tools next click new and choose folder if you’re creating the word document for a specific class you can name the folder after the course plus the semester and year or whatever naming convention you prefer when you’re done click create now i need to find my folder amongst my other folders in onedrive now that i’m in the folder i click new and choose word document at this juncture i’ll rename the document by clicking document deleting the default title typing my preferred title for the document and pressing the return or enter key on my keyboard next i create my document by adding any text tables or other media now i need to generate a shared link to do so i click the share link icon in the upper right i usually select people in the ohio state university with the link because it’s faster than manually entering a list of email addresses though you can certainly do so if you’d like to have more control over who can access the word document because this is a collaborative document i keep allow editing selected and click apply i’m now ready to copy the link so i click the button copy link i can share this link in multiple ways for instance in a carmen canvas course i can insert the link into hyperlink text for an activity or i can place the link directly into a module as an external link please note that you do not have to create a new folder each time you create a new shared word document with my folder for my course made i can close out of this document and if i want to create a new document i simply return to new select word document and begin the process from the start and that is how you create and share a collaborative word document
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