Annotations can be used to provide inline feedback to students on file or text assignment types in Brightspace. For example, you can mark, highlight or underline text, add notes and text boxes directly on documents. This tool might be considered for;

• providing contextual feedback to students on written submissions which helps them to reflect and review their assignments
• as a replacement for hand-written annotations as it provides legible digital annotations on students’ work which is accessible in one place
• for draft assignment submissions, students can view annotations and use them to improve and for writing new versions

4. You can choose to use these tools by clicking on the icons from the annotation toolbar which has several features (e.g. text highlighting, freehand drawing, text annotation, note annotation) to enable you mark up text in documents.  The navigation bar also allows additional actions i.e. to navigate between the pages, replace your cursor with a hand icon, zoom in and out, print the file including the annotations, search within the file and download the file with the annotations as a PDF-file.

5. Once you have completed the annotations and provided a grade or additional feedback (if required via the feedback panel) you can choose to ‘publish’ it or ‘save as draft’.