Etherpad

Etherpad allows multiple people to simultaneously edit a text document.

Activities

Text design
CoCreation

Level of difficulty

Link

pad.paul.zhdk.ch

Etherpad is a web-based editor that allows you to develop texts with others. You can edit texts in real time and view the old versions at any time. Pads have no access restrictions, and can be accessed via a self-chosen or cryptic URL without a password in the web. This openness is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Pads can be opened and edited directly in the browser or in PAUL. The document can be downloaded as a text or Word file.

Google purchased the technology in 2009 and made it available as an open-source license. Today the software is developed by the Etherpad Foundation.

Similar services: Google Docs, Word, Wiki
Access: Browser, direct in PAUL
Restrictions: Pads cannot be protected
Data location: ZHdK

Let's go!

Open pad.paul.zhdk.ch

Open and edit pad

If you open a pad via a course inside PAUL, it is only available to the course participants.
If you open a pad outside PAUL, it is public and everyone who has the URL can access it.

View the development of the pad by clicking on the clock icon.

Quotes

I use etherpads to develop agenda items with others for meetings.

Renato Soldenhoff

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