Student annotations (instructors)

Overview

Instructors can create assignments where students annotate a file. Teachers can attach a file once without needing to upload or assign it individually.

Students can use the annotation options to:

• Add a text box.

• Add shapes.

• Highlight parts of the attachment.

• Draw or write with the pen tool.

Type annotations, like underlining and highlighting, only work for text within an uploaded document. Type annotations do not work on images, even if the image is of text.

Create an annotations assignment

1. Navigate to a course.

2. Select Add Materials and choose Add Assignment from the list.

3. From Format Options, select Annotations Assignment.

4. Upload a file (accepted types: DOCX, HTML, JPG, PDF, PNG, PPTX, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, XML).

5. Enter the assignment information.

6. Click Create.

Review or grade an annotations assignment

1. Navigate to a course.

2. From Submissions, select Needs Grading.

3. Review the student's responses.

4. Enter a Grade. 

5. Optionally, enter Comments and choose to show the grade and comments to the student.

6. Click Submit.

Students

Student annotations offer students a new assignment experience; however, the student display and available options can vary at the elementary and secondary grade levels.

1. From within an assignment, click:

   1. Elementary: Draw or Type

   2. Secondary: Start Assignment

2. Annotate the file from the Doc Viewer using the annotation tools available in the editor. Changes are automatically saved.

3. When you are finished, click:

   1. Elementary: I'm Done

   2. Secondary: Submit

4. Optionally, to clear annotations, click Clear All. Then, click Clear All again to confirm.

5. To go back without saving, click Back.

Students who have submitted their work can select the assignment again to review their submission.

Elementary options

Continue assignment

Students who have not submitted their assignments can resume working where they left off.

1. Select the assignment.

2. Click Continue.

3. Continue annotating the assignment.

   1. Click Previous Submission to revert to a previous submission of the assignment.

   2. Click Open Submission to confirm the reversal. Click Stay Here to keep annotating the current version.

Try again after submitting

A student can return to an assignment if an instructor wants the student to try the assignment again.

1. Click on the assignment.

2. Click Try Again.

3. Continue annotating the assignment. Previous annotations will still be displayed.

Secondary options

Edit draft

Students who have not submitted their assignments can resume working where they left off.

1. Select the assignment.

2. Click Edit Draft.

3. Continue annotating the assignment.

4. Click Back to exit the assignment

Re-submit an assignment

A student can return to an assignment if an instructor wants the student to try the assignment again.

1. Select the assignment.

2. Click Re-Submit Assignment.

3. Continue annotating the assignment. Previous annotations will still be displayed.