Annoto: Personal Notes In Canvas Can Be A Study Aid

Environment

Annoto
MiVideo
Canvas

Issue

How an instructor can use Annoto's Personal Notes to provide students a tool for study purposes.

• Students can take personal notes and download these notes for study help.
  • Examples of student notes include summarizing the content or reflecting on the video.
• Personal notes aren’t just for students, instructors can also take personal notes.
  • Examples of instructor notes include reflecting on content or adding insights based on questions asked in comments. Comments are another feature in Annoto, see how Annoto Comments Engage Students In A Flipped Classroom for more info.
• Instructors cannot see students' personal notes. While this use case focuses on using notes as a study aid, if the instructor wants to view a student’s personal notes they can ask the student to download their notes and submit them as an assignment upload. See How Students Can Download Annoto Personal Notes for instructions to share with students.

Tip: because Annoto is interactive and collects user behavior, it is not recommended to use Annoto in public courses since public courses do not require authentication to access. Personal notes created by a non-authenticated user are visible to all non-authenticated users.

Video Demos

Enable Annoto Feature For All Videos

Enable or Disable Annoto Feature For An Individual Video

Annoto Personal Notes

Resolution

Videos must be added to the MiVideo service to use Annoto.

Enable Personal Notes at the Course Level

All videos in the course (including videos in the Media Gallery and embedded into course content) will have the Annoto Personal Notes feature enabled. Once enabled for all videos, Personal Notes can be disabled for individual videos such as video quizzes, videos used in assignments, or anywhere it would not be appropriate to allow students to take notes.

1. Navigate to the Annoto Dashboard in the course:
   • From the Media Gallery
     • Media Gallery > Channel Actions in the upper right > Annoto Dashboard.
   • From the left course navigation
     • Settings > Navigation > enable Annoto Dashboard. Note: this only has to be done once to have the navigation link appear in the course.
     • Click the Annoto Dashboard link in the left course navigation.
2. From the Annoto Dashboard click the Preferences icon in the upper right.
3. Enable Personal Notes.

• Tip: to disable Personal Notes for an individual video navigate to the Preferences tab for a specific video in the Annoto Dashboard and disable Personal Notes. 
• The ability to enable and disable Annoto features for specific videos provide instructors complete control over how students interact with course videos.

Enable Personal Notes at the Individual Video Level

Only specific videos in the course will have the Annoto Personal Notes feature enabled.

1. Navigate to the Annoto Dashboard in the course:
   • From the Media Gallery
     • Media Gallery > Channel Actions in the upper right > Annoto Dashboard.
   • From the left course navigation
     • Settings > Navigation > enable Annoto Dashboard. Note: this only has to be done once to have the navigation link appear in the course.
     • Click the Annoto Dashboard link in the left course navigation.
2. Click on the name of the video from the Course Videos section 
   • Important: If you don't see the video in this list, the video may have been published in the course prior to enabling Annoto (this can occur when importing a previous course with embedded videos). The video has to load in the player once before it will show up on the Annoto Dashboard. Navigate to the page where the video is embedded. There is no need to play the video, the player just needs to load on the page. The process is similar if the video is published in the Media Gallery. Navigate to the Media Gallery and click on the video to load the player.
3. Click the Video Preferences icon in the upper right.
4. Enable Personal Notes.

Annoto Guides

• Annoto User Guide for Instructors 
• Annoto User Guide for Students

Resources and Questions

• Check out the new Academic Technology@Michigan website for course planning resources from across U-M.
• Visit the Canvas @ Michigan site for faculty including the U-M Instructor Guide with links to additional support resources from across campus.
• Check out the Canvas and MiVideo tutorials.

For additional questions, please contact the ITS Service Center.