Presentation at 2019 D2L Connection at Normandale CC on April 5, 2019 Annotate Student Assignment Submissions with Ease- Susan Engel, St. Cloud Technical & Community College and Karen Wenz, Minnesota State System

1. April 5,2019
D2L Minnesota Connection Conference
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Annotate Student Assignment Submissions
with Ease
Susan Engel, St Cloud Technical and Community College
Karen Wenz, Minnesota State system office

2. Annotations in Assignments
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1. Teacher adds annotations to Assignmentsubmissions
via Annotations toolbar
2. Teacher publishes annotations
3. Students view the annotations
4. Students may download a PDF thatincludes
annotations
 Original file submission from student remains intactand
can be viewed bystudent
 Student may view the annotations and downloada
separate PDF that containsthe annotations

3. Annotation tools
• Highlighter, Pen
• Comment bubbles (mouse over to view comments)
• Lines, Arrows, Rectangles
• Text
• Inline attributes: strikethrough, underline, squiggly
underline, highlight
Tool attributes and adjustments
• size, color, thickness, alignment, style
• Zoom, fit to page, fit to width
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Annotations in Assignments

4. Comment bubble iconoptions
1. Select color
2. Select icon
3. Click to placeicon
4. Type text in note
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5. Highlighter and Pen options
1. Select highlighter orpen color
2. Select border color
3. Select opacity
4. Select thickness
5. Select style
6. Draw highlighting or usepen
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6. Line, Arrow Rectangle options
1. Select line, arrow orrectangle
2. Select color
3. Select border color
4. Select opacity
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5. Select thickness
6. Select left linestyle
7. Select center linestyle
8. Select right linestyle
9. Drawline

7. Text options
1. Select texttool
2. Select text color
3. Select border color
4. Select opacity
5. Select font choice
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6. Select fontsize
7. Select vertical alignment
8. Select horizontalalignment
9. Click to place cursor and type

8. Pop Up Text attributes
Select text and pop up menuallows:
highlighting,
strikethrough,
underline or
squiggly underline
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9. Teacher View with toolbar
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10. Remove an Annotation mark
1. Click to select an annotationmark.
2. A trash can icon displays in the upper right on the toolbar. Clickicon.
3. Click “OK”button.
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11. Publish or Save Draft
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Instructor can “Save Draft” to save the annotations that have alreadybeen made, but
prevent student from seeingannotations yet.
When instructor has finished and wants student to see annotations, click “Publish”

12. Student View from Assignments
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13. Student View from Gradebook

14. Student can downloadPDF
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15. Retract and Update
Retract: removes previously published annotationsfrom student view
Update: to make additionsor revisions toannotations
After updating, instructor can re-publishto make annotationsvisible to
studentagain.
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16. Student Comments

17. Q & A
Q: Can students make annotations as well (for peer review,
for example) ?
A: At this time, annotations can only be made by teachers
(we will ask D2L if there’s a plan to make it possible for
students to mark up their submission files, and/or respond
to teacher annotations)
Q: Can annotations be recognized by assistivetechnology?
A: At this time, annotations are not recognized by
screen readers, such as JAWS, etc. D2L is working
diligently to make annotations accessible. Assistive
technologies (screen readers) are currently unable to
distinguish drawing, color highlighting, etc.
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18. Annotations became available in the Assignments
tool in Brightspace on March 21, 2019.
You will see the Annotations toolbar when you
are viewing assignment submission files.
Annotations Availability
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19. Thank you for coming to the
Annotations session
If you have any follow up questions or comments, please contact us:
Susan Engel, faculty at St Cloud Technical and Community College
sengel@sctcc.edu
Karen Wenz, D2L System Admin at Minnesota State system office
Karen.wen@minnstate.edu