1.5.5. Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

OneNote 2003 is an splendid tool with students with tablet PC's that will enjoy all the rich features, flexibility and freedom the program offers when used in full. However, a lack of multi-user features, specially a professor/student oriented interaction, aims OneNote 2003 towards a different target market of that of eClass.

Good Features:

• Lets the user take, organize, and share notes across different PC's.
• Very flexible, allows to take notes in any custom style, and format them to a preset if necessary.
• Easy to attach pictures, audio, and other files to the notes at any time.
• Has a calendar feature that organizes notes and also allows the user to create a log of events or insert pointers in the notes for future references.
• Provides excellent support for pen input devices or tablet PC's, giving freedom to the user to take notes in a customized way.
• Has the ability to convert notes taken with a pen in a tablet PC in formatted text for easy share.
• The flagging feature allows for customized organizing of the notes. High flexibility.
• The flexibility of the page layout allows the user to work with text, shapes and figures as if they were moving and resize sable objects.
• A snapshot feature and camera interface gives the freedom to gather visual data and paste it in the notes without requiring extra software.
• When connected to Internet, One note allows the user to share notes across computers logged in the session. Participants can work on and view notes together.
• Compatibility with the family Microsoft Office products, allows to import formated notes to any of these products.
• Password protection allows the user to keep his notes private.
• A trace correction algorithm allows OneNote 2003 to increase the quality of user made diagrams keeping the notes neat and clean.

• Most features will only work with pen recognition hardware, or are only useful for portable computers, thus leaving Desktop users with a crippled product.
• The importing and exporting of files across the family of Microsoft Office products needs to be improved as more often than not imported files will need a lot of formatting.
• Limited set of drawing tools.

• No multi-user specific interface that allows for improved communication between users.
• No lecture creation, editing specific tools that gives more control over lectures to a professor.
• No record tracking of users assisting the session.
• No interface to allow/deny note editing during multi-user session.
• No distinction or hierarchy between users (professor/students).





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