Doctopus (and Goobric) for document sharing, project management, & efficient assessment

Hello again,

Today I wanted to tackle a comprehensive script that allows for a lot of functionality in the classroom: Doctopus. Below is a picture of the doctopus workflow I discuss in the overview video.

Here are a few things the Doctopus script can do for teachers:

1. Efficiently share a single document template (or resource folder with multiple resources) with all students so that all students can either edit, comment, or view only the single document / resource folder. The document types doctopus can handle include drawings, presentations, docs, and spreadsheets.
2. Efficiently deny one user or all users access to the document/folder you shared with them.
3. Allow for quick commenting on all student documents and email those comments automatically to the students.
4. Efficiently share a single document template with the entire class where each student can edit his or her own document, but you maintain ownership of all documents.
5. Efficiently share multiple different document types (one per student) so that you can differentiate the type of work that each student or student group is doing. (See the video I created.)
6. Efficiently share multiple documents (one document template type / group) with multiple groups.
7. Attach a rubric to a doc using the goobric script (through doctopus.)

Overview Video

Doctopus in action




Applying Goobric to Doctopus for quick assessment



Additional resources:

Click Doctopus Script for more information on the script.

More information on the Goobric Script: