I'm a woot-PE buyer from this week. I'm planning to use it for my class prep, so that I can do an integrated file that includes the readings and/or webpages for the week with my annotations on discussion topics and questions, plus links and videos.

I have been wondering: if I create files that I can see on the PE, are those files exportable in a form that a student could view without an eDGe? In other words, can the annotations be part of a new PDF or epub, or are they stored separately in an edge-specific format, not in the base file?

What I am hoping but can't quite sort out from the documentation is that I can create such files and post them on the class website so that students can use them. (Right now instead I post lists of links, plus they have the readings: not integrated.)

I'm also crossing my fingers that I can find a way for students to submit assignments in a form the ereader side can annotate (which they usually do in MSWord or in OpenOffice) maybe by having them submit rtf files and then converting them to epub with Calibre? Is that correct?

... and that I can send them back an annotated file where they'd be able to read my comments. (Preferably not an epub, as my students aren't hugely tech-savvy and most haven't heard of epub files; at least pdfs their computers should know how to open without downloading anything else)

Anyone done something similar?

(though I will be please with the PE options even if I can't)