Brightspace Annotation Toolbar at D2L Connection Arizona
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Presentation by Christine Kalel of the University of Arizona at the D2L Connection: Arizona Edition on March 29, 2019 at McLelland Hall at UA. Most of the presentation was done with a live demo (no video).
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Brightspace Annotation Toolbar at D2L Connection Arizona
- 1. Brightspace Annotation Toolbar Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash Christina Kalel University of Arizona Office of Instruction & Assessment
- 2. Possibilities ● Highlight, underline, strikethrough text ● Add notes ● Type right on paper ● Add shapes and arrows ● Draw freehand Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
- 3. Image by Anne Karakash from Pixabay
- 4. Your turn ● Visit https://test.d2l.arizona.edu ● Use Non UA NetID Login ● Select course: Annotation Toolbar ● Select Assignments ● Select your assignment (paper) ● Click Evaluate
Editor's Notes
- Hello, I’m Christina Kalel, and I work for the University of Arizona’s Brightspace Support Team. We support around 4000 courses each semester, and one of our jobs is keeping instructors updated on the changes in our monthly updates. This spring, a highly-requested feature is becoming reality - annotation capability directly in the Assignments tool! For this presentation I’ll share and demonstrate the annotation toolbar in our test environment, show you what annotations look like from a student perspective, and then you will all get a chance to experiment with it yourselves. If we find problems, we know where the D2L people are to report them to...
- So what does the new annotation toolbar do? Here are some of the possibilities it offers, which I will demonstrate shortly. You can do simple word-processing things with text including highlighting, underlining (two kinds!) and striking through the text in their paper. You can add little pop-up notes for longer comments, or type directly on their paper. And you can add a large selection of shapes, or even your own drawings. Every annotation you make is saved automatically, and you can delete them at any point before publishing. You can also go back and update your published annotations, if you made a mistake. I want to demonstrate some of the basic annotation tools for you now, then we’ll have some time for you to test them on your own. First, I’ll show the tools to mark up text. You get to these tools by highlighting the text you want to mark, then picking the tool from the little bar. (Demo highlight, underline, squiggle underline, and strikethrough). Now I’ll show you how to add notes to the page. These show up as icons (which you can customize) that students will click on to see the note. (Demo notes, clicking on icons, a few of the choices). What if you want to type your notes directly on the page? Here’s how. (Demo text on page, maybe highlighting). You might also want to use an arrow, line, or rectangle to draw attention to something on the page. (Demo arrow, line, box). Finally, there might be something that just doesn’t work with any of these options - you need to physically draw out your markup. You can use the pen here (Demo pen). You can also highlight freehand with this option, which might be useful if highlighting an image or graph. (Demo highlight.) When done, make sure you publish the annotations and grades (if needed) so students can see them. We’ll look at what they see next! (Publish Feedback and Grades)
- Now we’ll take a look at how this looks on the student side. I’m going to log in as Chrysanthemum Student, whose paper I just annotated and published - they won’t see these until you publish. As you will see, there are a few steps to get to the paper (though I feel these will be improved in a future iteration). If you start using annotations, it’s also good to know the steps your students will need to take to get to your comments, so they aren’t missing their feedback. After I impersonate the student, I’ll first check notifications. This is where many students find out about their published grades, and might be the first step to viewing your feedback. When I click on the link, I see the grade and any feedback you left directly in D2L. In this case, I left it all on the paper, though this could be a place to direct them toward the annotated paper. Now I’ll go to Assignments, then click to view feedback. Depending on whether the student is using the new Assignment experience or the old they might click on Feedback: Unread (new) or View Feedback (old). Then they will need to click View Inline Feedback one more time to see the paper. Once inside the paper, you’ll notice that it looks pretty much the same as your view - it’s just the steps to view it that are different. They will be able to zoom, print, and search (though this only searches their paper, not your annotations).
- Now it’s your turn to experiment. I’ve given each person in this room a piece of paper with your username and password. You can log in at the test.d2l.arizona.edu website shown here, make sure you use the Non UA NetID Login so you can access the course. Once in the course, click Assignments, then click the Assignment name on your paper, then Evaluate next to the student’s name. This is just to help you avoid annotating on top of each other. I’ll walk around the room to answer questions or help you with any issues logging in/getting into the class. If you need anything, wave me down! I’m happy to answer any questions you have, whether related to annotations or not.