Quick Tips for Adding Notes on your Smartphone 

by Bruce Graves

Most (if not all) Smartphones, have microphones and speech to text facility.
If you wish to add an:

• Attendance Note
• Assessment Note
• Learning Note
• Enrolment Note
• Sensitive Note
• Pastoral Note

...you can go to the 'Note' field and your keyboard will appear. An image of a microphone will also show. Click on the microphone and you can dictate the contents of the note (up to 2,000 characters).

Please note that your speech to text is not always perfect (you may have to modify some 'mishears'), particularly with spellings of names. 

Don't forget to stop recording as it will continue to convert your speech, which could make for some 'interesting' notes.

I'm always learning new things. Yesterday, during one of our trainer meetings, Phil came up with a use for edge Mobile for office administrators...

If you are sighting birth certificate, court order, immunisation document, etc. you can take a photo of it on your phone and attach it to the relevant note. You will need to put something in the 'Note' field.

I liked this last idea so much I added it last minute to the Seminar notes for our upcoming Administrator Seminars starting next week. It isn't too late to register...