What’s New - Annotate This, Activity Feed That! Colleen Myer, Holland College PDF Handout for Brightspace Annotations Tool At Holland College in Charlottetown, PEI on May 31, 2019. D2L Connection: Atlantic Provinces is your opportunity to connect with peers and D2L staff, exchange product feedback, share effective practices, and network with other Learning Professionals.

1. Using Annotations for instructor feedback in the
Assignment tool
1. Navigate to your Course Dropbox tool to View Submissions.
2. Open first assignment to view. Note the Navigation bar is removed to increase
your viewing field.
3. In the evaluation panel we can add rubrics, scores, and overall feedback.
Inline Notations
4. Quick start with inline annotation.
a. Highlight
b. Strikethrough
c. Underline
d. Wiggly line
5. Select the annotation to edit the color.
6. Select an annotation to delete.

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Pen and Highlighter
7. The pen icon allows for freehand ink, freehand highlighting, and text
highlighting.
8. The pen can be used to freehand write, add grammatical notations, or draw.
9. Activated pen menu has many options. Note defaults at first usage.
a. Color
b. Background color
c. Transparency
d. Point size
10.Activate highlighter menu with same options as pen. Note default settings.
11.The menu options will retain setting options chosen until new options are
selected. Pen and highlighter settings can be maintained separately. Moving to
next student resets defaults.

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Notes
12.The note menu will allow you to choose from a variety of icon and note colors
to place with the document for text comments.
13.Once placed, a note pad text box will appear for your use. Once you click away
the note pad collapses. To edit the note, click on the icon.
14.Hover over the icon to expand the note for reading.
15.Click and drag to move the note.
16.Select note icon to change the note pad color.
17.Select note icon and click to exchange the icon.
18.Select a new icon for a new note.

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Textboxes
19. Chick text box icon and place within the document.
20.Options from menu can be applied before or after text is added. If editing
after, then click on the textbox to select and to access menu
a. Font color
b. Fill color
c. Transparency
d. Font Style
e. Font size
f. Alignment
21.Click and drag to move the textbox
22.Resize the textbox.
Add Shapes
23.Click the shape dropdown to add a line, an arrow, or a rectangle.
24.Place with the document.
25.Shape menu will offer options
a. Color of line
b. Background color
c. Transparency
d. Line width

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26.Click and drag to move
Publish
27.Publish this formative feedback with or without a grade.
28.Students can click View Inline Feedback in User Progress within the Dropbox
tool for access to the annotated document.
29.Click to download this document as a PDF for future reference.