Annoto: Notifications In Canvas

Environment

Annoto
MiVideo
Canvas

Issue

Annoto's Notifications can be enabled in two ways:

• Follow a discussion = Both instructors and students can enable notifications for individual videos.
  • When following a discussion, instructors and students will receive an email notification any time new comments are added to the video or when a reply is made to one of their comments.
• Follow a course = Only instructors can enable notifications for the entire course.
  • When following a course, instructors will receive an email notification any time new comments are added to a video.

Resolution

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

Follow a Discussion (Students and Teachers)

When Notifications are enabled (see "How to enable notifications") there are two ways to follow a video discussion (notifications are not enabled on a video by default):

• Manually enable "Follow this discussion" in the Annoto menu for this video (see below).
• Add a comment to the video and Annoto will automatically enable notifications on this video for you.

Enable/Disable "Follow this Discussion" in the Annoto Menu

1. Navigate to the video.
2. Click the Annoto icon in the lower right corner of the player to open the Annoto widget (if not already).
3. Click the Annoto menu button in the upper left of the widget. 
4. Enable/disable notifications by clicking the bell icon.
5. You're following the discussion if the bell is green and not following the discussion if the bell is clear.

Disable "Followed Discussions" and/or "Replies" in the Annoto Menu

Quickly disable notifications for discussions and/or replies. This setting applies to all videos you follow.

1. Navigate to the video.
2. Click the Annoto icon in the lower right corner of the player to open the Annoto widget (if not already).
3. Click the Annoto menu button in the upper left of the widget. 
4. Click "My Space".
5. Disable "Followed Discussions" and/or "Replies".

Follow a Course (Teachers, TAs, and Designers Only)

Quickly enable email notifications for all new comments and replies posted to all videos with comments 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. From the Annoto Dashboard click the Follow this Course button in the upper right.
3. The button text changes to Following.
4. To disable course notifications, click the Following button again. The button text changes to Follow this Course.

How To Enable Notifications

Instructors, TAs and designers can enable the Notifications feature. 

Enable Notifications at the Individual Video Level

Only specific videos in the course will have the Annoto Notifications feature enabled. Comments must be enabled on the video first.

1. Navigate to the video.
2. Click the Annoto icon in the lower right corner of the player to open the Annoto widget (if not already).
3. If you don't see the Annoto dashboard, click the Annoto menu button in the upper left of the widget and select Dashboard.
4. Click the Preferences icon in the upper right.
5. Enable Comments then enable Notifications.
6. Enable additional comment related features as needed, see the Annoto: Comments Engage Students In A Flipped Classroom article.

Enable Notifications at the Course Level

All videos in the course (including videos in the Media Gallery and embedded into course content) will have the Annoto Notifications feature enabled. Comments must be enabled at the course level first.

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 Comments then enable Notifications. 
4. Enable additional comment related features as needed, see the Annoto: Comments Engage Students In A Flipped Classroom article.

How To Disable Notifications

If Notifications are disabled from Preferences in the Annoto Dashboard, instructors and students will no longer receive emails for that video (when disabled at the video level) or any video in the course (when disabled at the course level).

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.