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Schoology Annotation Assignments

Posted by Antonio Hernandez on 5/20/2022

A new feature is now available in Schoology!  Teachers can now create assignments that allow students to annotate directly on a file shared by the teacher. Teachers can use existing handouts and attach them to an assignment. Students can record their responses directly onto the file without having to download or print the document. You can find out how to use this new feature using the Annotations Assignment job aid found on our PLS website under Resources.

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Annotations Assignment - Secondary View (Grades 6 - 12)

Annotations assignment.

This assignment type provides students with the following annotation options:

• Add a text box
• Add shapes, for example, circle, square, or rectangle
• Highlight parts of the attachment 
• Pen tool for drawing and writing

Instructors:

Creating an annotations assignment.

To watch a video on how annotations assignments work, please click this link:  https://sau19.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Annotations+Assignments+-+Grades+6-12/1_ajwqessz

Student Annotations offer students a new assignment experience; however, the student display and available options can vary at the elementary and secondary grade levels.

1. Click on the assignment..

2. Click on  Start Assignment .

3. Annotate the file from the Doc Viewer using the annotation tools available in the editor. Changes are automatically saved. 

4. When you are finished, click  Submit .

Optionally, to clear annotations, click  Clear All . Then, click  Clear All  again to confirm.

To go back without saving, click  Back .

Students who have not submitted their assignment can resume working where they left off. 

1. Click into the assignment.  

2. Click  Edit Draft.

3. Continue annotating the assignment. 

4. Click  Back  to exit the assignment

Resubmit Assignment Corrections

A student can return to an assignment if an instructor wants the student to try the assignment again.

1. Click on the assignment.

2. Click  Re-Submit Assignment . 

3. Continue annotating the assignment. Previous annotations will still display.

Reviewing or Grading an Annotations Assignment

After a student has submitted their assignment, the instructor can review and grade it from the class assignment. 

1. In the Submissions area, select  Needs Grading .

2. Review the student's responses.

3. Type a grade into the Grade box.

4. Add notes for the student in the available text box.

5. Check whether or not you want the grade and notes to Show to the student.

6. Click  Submit .

***When grading an assignment, you will get annotation tools to type or draw directly on the assignment itself as well!

This article explains the components of the Schoology document viewer to teachers

The document viewer in Schoology enables you to grade and annotate student assignment submissions. To access the document viewer, click a document or click a submission to access additional grading options and annotation controls.

Document Viewer Components

Three sections comprise the menu bar along the top of the document viewer: Sections A and B are available to all users, while section C is only available to you when grading and annotating student assignments.

Section A: Moving and resizing the document

1) Display or hide thumbnails of the pages in the document.

2) Scroll through the doc or type in the page number to jump to it.

3) Increase or decrease the viewing size.

4) Fit the document to the width or height of the viewer.

5) View a full-screen version of the document.

6) Move the document by dragging with the mouse.

7) Select and copy text.

Section B: Printing, downloading, and searching the document

8) Print or download the document.

9) Use keyword search to find a specific part of the document.

10) Show or hide revision notes to the right of the document.

Section C: Grading and annotations

Using the grading controls, teachers can also:

11) Grade the assignment. If you're using a rubric to grade the assignment, it will display when you click into this area. The date and time of the most recently auto-saved grade displays below. You can also add grade comments after entering the grade, which show in the gradebook when you select Show to student .

12) Highlight selected text.

13) Strikeout selected text.

14) Add notes to the document. These notes display in the Revisions Panel to the right of the document.

15) Draw on the document.

All annotations and grade updates are automatically saved and posted to the student.

Click on any existing annotation to open a style menu. You can change the color of the markup or delete it from the document. Click Done to close the menu.

Right-click anywhere in the document viewer to access many of the controls, as well.

Annotations notes and submission activity

You can view the date and time of submission from the following areas.

Area 1: The top of the document underneath the student’s name.

Area 2: In the Submission Activity panel on the right.

You and your students may add comments in two places in the document viewer.

Location 1: You may add a note to comment on the document itself using the Note icon. These notes display directly to the right of the document in the revisions panel. Click the Revision Notes icon to display or hide these notes and other revision marks.

~ Click the Note icon from the annotation toolbar.

~ Click on the document where you would like to have a note appear for the student. Enter your comments and click Save .

Location 2: You or your students may add notes, comments, or questions concerning the assignment itself in the Submission Activity area to the right of the revisions panel. You can also attach files or audio recordings to these comments.

Click Post after entering comments. These comments do not appear in the gradebook.

Please Note: Comments added to the Submissions Activity area and notes added to the document using the Notes icon do not appear as grading comments in the gradebook.

~ Comments added to the Submission Activity area send a notification to the student and you.

~ Notes added to the document using the Notes icon do not send a notification.

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Course Materials: Assignments

Creating an assignment.

From the Course Materials page, use the Add Materials drop-down menu to create an assignment. You can also access the Add Materials button from within a folder.

• Click Add Materials.
• Select Add Assignment.
• Fill out the Create Assignment form.
• Enter a Description. Here, you can enter the directions your students will need to complete the assignment
• Set a Due Date to place the assignment in the Course Calendar and Upcoming area. This will also enable Overdue notifications if a student fails to submit the assignment by the due date.
• Select a Grading Category from the dropdown. If you do not select a grading category, it will default to Ungraded, and will not appear in your gradebook.

Automatically Publish Grades: Selecting Automatically Publish Grades will immediately display student grades in the gradebook for parents and students. 

Assignments with Automatically publish scores disabled, that are synced to PowerSchool SIS, will set the Publish Scores settings within PowerTeacher Pro gradebook to be disabled as well. Any other SIS integration will not honor this setting in the sync to SIS option.

Collected Type: Selecting Collected will disable the ability to add a traditional score to the assignment.

• Collected Type assignments will passback to PowerTeacher Pro gradebook with the score type of Collected Only. Other SIS integrations will present these assignments as any other assignment with a grade column. 
• Districts using District Mastery may use Collected Only assignments with objective alignments to continue to grade for mastery. Districts using Classic Mastery can use a rubric with an objective attached to allow for mastery only grading.
• Select a Scale or Rubric from the dropdown menu.

Align Learning Objectives to add custom learning objectives, Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, ACTFL Standards for Foreign Language Learning, College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education, AERO Curriculum Frameworks, or State Standards. Enterprise users: Once you have aligned your material with learning objectives, use the Mastery tool to track your students' progress

Common Core, NGSS, College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education, and State Standards are consistently updated in Schoology. Any learning objective titles that contain a year indicate the original publication date and not the most recent update.

• Use Individually Assign to only display the assignment to a specific member of the course or a grading group.
• Lock prevents students from making submissions. You may want to lock the assignment after the due date has passed.
• Enable Submissions: Click the dropbox icon to provide an area for students to submit work. You can opt to disable submissions if the assignment does not require something in return from the student - for example, reading homework.
• Published to student: opt to show or hide the assignment from the student view.
• Grade Statistics displays the statistics for the assignments to students, which is located in an icon above assignment submissions.
• Enable Comments: This allows students to comment on the assignment.
• Copy to Courses: Copy the assignment with the current settings and options to another course.

Count in Grade Enabled: This marks a material to be included in final grade calculations. 

Assignments with Count in Grade disabled, that are synced to PowerSchool SIS, will set the Count in Grade settings within PowerTeacher Pro gradebook to be disabled as well. Any other SIS integration will not honor this setting in the sync to SIS option.

• Click Create to complete.

Assignment View

Once you click Create , the description and any additional files or links will display on the assignment, along with the Submissions and comment tools. From this page, you can manage assignment submissions, grade students, and participate in the comments area.

Assignment Submissions

When a student makes a submission to an assignment, you will receive a notification.

You can access Submissions from the Assignment, and by clicking the Assignment listed in the Calendar. Use this area to manage student-submitted files.

Submitted files are organized by On Time and Late, based on the assignment's Due Date. You can download or review each individual file, or you can download all assignments in a bulk .zip file.

The Download All option has a limit of 500MB. If the cumulative size of all submissions to the assignment exceeds this limit, each submission can be downloaded individually from the document viewer.

Grading Assignments

Document viewer.

The Document Viewer enables you to review and/or annotate student assignment submissions directly through your Schoology account. To use the Document Viewer, click a submission.

In the Document Viewer, you can:

• Comment and discuss in the right column.
• Review the date and time submitted for each submission.
• Upload a file to the comment/discussion feed.
• Highlight selected text.
• Comment in the document.
• Strikeout selected text.
• Draw on the document.
• Grade the assignment.
• Download the file and save it on your computer.

Return the annotated/graded assignment to the student by clicking Save Changes .

• The Schoology Doc Viewer supports the following file types: CSV, DOC, DOCX, DXF, EPS, GIF, HTM, HTML, JPEG, JPG, MP3, MP4, MOV, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDF, PNG, PPT, PPTX, PSD, RTF, SXW, TIFF, TXT, WAV, WMV, WPD, WPS, XLS, XLSB, XLSX, and XML. The submission viewer does not convert Apple Pages, Numbers, or Keynote files, but you may download these submissions onto your computer. You cannot annotate all file types (media files, for example) using the Annotation toolbar.
• While there is no limit to the number of files you can attach, you must upload each file individually. Schoology has a size limit of 512 MB per file.

Returning Assignments

The Submissions Viewer feature enables you to "return" assignments to students by clicking the Save Changes button. If you use a third-party annotation program, you can upload your revised document to the comments/discussion area of the student's submission.

If you plan to have students submit multiple revisions of the same assignment, you can leave comments, where you will see a history of submissions and comments.

To delete any comments posted by you or the student, hover the cursor over the comment and click X , then click Submit to confirm.

You can enter a grade directly on a submission of the document viewer.

When you click the Grade field, you can enter a grade based on the grading scale or rubric you selected while creating the assignment, along with a comment. The comment entered here will display in the gradebook. It will also display in the student's Grades area of the course if you check Show to Student . After entering a grade and a comment (optional), click Submit to save.

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Are you ready to level up your Schoology experience? In this video, you’ll learn how to create Kami assignments in Schoology and easily share them with your students.

Hiya, I’m Vanessa. I’m on the community team here at Kami and I love supporting and cheering on our educators. But more importantly, I love sharing top tips to make your lives even easier. Today I’m going to show you how Kami and Schoology works so well together. Getting set up is super simple, just make sure you and your students have the Kami extension installed. First, let’s dive straight into Kami and start creating an assignment for our class. For this assignment, I’m going to use this Bubble Map Template from the Kami Library. As you can see, I’ve already added in text boxes invoice comment instructions, but I want to add one more touch before I sign it out to my students. So I’m going to use the Add Media tool to drop an image in the middle. Another awesome thing about Kami is that all your work is automatically saved to either your Google Drive or OneDrive to a specific Kami Uploads folder, keeping all your Kami files in one place. Now that the assignment is ready to be assigned, let’s click on the Sharing button up here. Here you can see your unique Kami sharing link general sharing permissions, plus download and print permissions. I’m going to copy the unique sharing link. And now we’re ready to move on to the next step in Schoology. So let’s hop on over there. 

Here we are in Schoology. With that Kami link and I copied earlier, I can quickly create an update in Schoology for quick collaboration. I’m going to click the link button, paste in the Kami link and give it a title and click Attach. I can also hit the bell button. If I want to make it an announcement. I want to make this an assignment. So I’m going to go to materials and from the drop down menu, I’m going to select the Kami option. It’s really important that you remember the steps so you get the full Kami experience. From here I’ll choose my file and I know where my work is because conveniently Kami saves everything to my Kami Uploads folder. So we’ll go to Google Drive and I’ll grab that file. I also have the option to control features where I can adjust the camera tools my students can access to complete the assignment, I’m actually only going to allow my students to use a few Kami tools to complete this assignment. And here is my Schoology window. Here I can confirm the due date, choose a category and I will save the changes. My assignment has now been sent out to my students. If you ever want to make any edits to your newly created assignment, click the Edit Template button to make some changes to your file before your students access to the assignment. Students received their assignment as normal in Schoology, and they can click the assignment directly to open it into Kami. Over on the toolbar, you can see the Feature Control selections that I’ve put in place. Once they finish their assignment, they can click Submit and see the celebratory confetti. Now that we’re ready to grade, open the Kami assignment in Schoology and click Open Grader. Here you’ll be able to monitor student’s work even before they click the Submit button. So make sure to take full advantage of this awesome feature when needed. I’ve marked up and left some feedback already. So to finish it off, I’ll leave a grade comment and hit post. 

And there we have it. Now you’re ready to start your first Kami assignment with Schoology remember to have fun with your own content and Chemi create dynamic learning experiences and let me help you keep making connections. Thanks for tuning in.

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Posted by Antonio Hernandez on 5/20/2022

A new feature is now available in Schoology!  Teachers can now create assignments that allow students to annotate directly on a file shared by the teacher. Teachers can use existing handouts and attach them to an assignment. Students can record their responses directly onto the file without having to download or print the document. You can find out how to use this new feature using the Annotations Assignment job aid found on our PLS website under Resources.

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