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1In addition to whatever gets recommended here, you should talk to your school's Enterprise Systems department (or the equivalent thereof - essentially, whoever is in charge of your school's LMS, if there is one). If there's enough interest from you and your colleagues, they may be able to approach the LMS developers and ask for an additional feature like this. Alternatively, they may be able to provide an in-house solution (depending on the size of the university). I met with some LMS devs at a conference once (as a student) - they seem to be fairly receptive to such suggestions.– tonysdgCommented Jun 17, 2016 at 3:35
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1Also - you could always try running Word under Wine on your Linux machine and using the built-in comparison features.– tonysdgCommented Jun 17, 2016 at 3:39
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Is Crocdoc any different from "regular" PDF annotation tools?– Federico PoloniCommented Jun 17, 2016 at 7:42
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Do you need to compare just revision n-1 with revision n, or at any two arbitrary points in time? The former is surely easier.– Federico PoloniCommented Jun 17, 2016 at 7:44
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1I can specify products within reason (should be free or gratis, and web-based or cross-platform). LaTex has a steep learning curve and I would only do that in an entire program (i.e. other faculty using in their classes) committed to LaTeX. Something similar that used Markdown (or plain text) might be doable.– Lee HachadoorianCommented Jun 17, 2016 at 19:49
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