CamScanner: A Useful Tool for College Professors

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3 min readNov 30, 2020

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Teaching college students is challenging, even more so now that the pandemic determined most universities to move their lessons online. As a tutor, you’ll likely have to scan dozens of books and case studies to turn them into online teaching material. Loads of emails from your students returning their assignments will also flood your email — and you’ll have to reply to each one of those to communicate your feedback.

Not only will these processes take up a lot of time, but you could also miss important emails or accidentally delete essential documents.

Luckily, CamScanner can help you prevent turning online teaching into total mayhem. This mobile scanning app is designed to replace traditional scanners, but it can do a lot more. Let’s see how it can help.

Quick Creation of Multimedia Courses

Perhaps the most demanding task when moving from campus to online classes is turning hard copies into digital material.

You could use a traditional scanner to scan books and case studies and upload them to a shared cloud space. However, editing these images to crop out any background or unnecessary information or turning them into Word docs or PowerPoint presentations is time-consuming. This is where CamScanner steps in.

This intuitive app turns your smartphone or tablet into a last-generation scanner capable of delivering perfect scans. The app recognizes page edges automatically and crops out the background so that you won’t have to worry about editing each picture manually.

Moreover, if you’re tired of the low-resolution of students’ digital assignments, you may want to recommend them to use CamScanner, to generate a clear and sharp image by scanning their assignments with the APP.

Photo of Assignments VS Scanned by CamScanner

But that’s only the beginning. CamScanner’s optical character recognition technology (OCR) recognizes written text — including handwriting — and turns JPG images into editable formats, including Word or txt. In this way, you can easily edit the files, cancel unimportant bits, and even turn questions from academic books into quizzes with minimal effort.

Effective Online Teaching

More than a virtual scanner, Camscanner allows you not only to visualize scanned files, but also to add notes and comments, making it easy to give your feedback on assignments.

You can then choose to upload these files into most cloud spaces, including Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, OneDrive, and OneNote. In this way, you can share study material or tests with all students at once, without sending individual emails.

Simultaneously, you can also use CamScanner to share scanned documents via email or social media, so you have plenty of alternative options if you don’t want to use a cloud space.

Down to You

CamScanner will make your life as a tutor easier. Not only will you be able to scan documents effortlessly, but you’ll also be able to turn JPG images into Word or PDFs with a simple touch of a button, send files via email or social media platforms, and even share documents and notes in your preferred cloud space. Undeniably, a must-have for online courses if you want to focus more on teaching and less on receiving, sending, and organizing digital materials.

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