Annoto
Annoto is a video annotation tool integrated within D2L Brightspace designed to enhance online video content by allowing users to add interactive elements directly onto videos. Annoto can easily be added to your videos in My Media/Kaltura within D2L Brightspace to enable features such as annotations, video comments, personal notes, quiz interactions, and user analytics. The tool will unlock new ways of interacting with the video content in your course and provide insights into how students engage with the material.
Requirements
- Annoto is integrated with D2L Brightspace. (Note: You will need an active Brightspace course shell to use Annoto.)
- Minimum system requirements for Annoto. Annoto is a web application that is compatible with the latest version of Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox web browsers. It is highly recommended that you access Annoto on a desktop web browser.
Annoto Guides
- How To Get Started With Annoto
- Annoto Dashboard –?Annoto management area where you can choose which Annoto tools apply to the course videos, change Annoto Preferences, and view the analytics of engagement with your videos in a course.
- Four suggested activities you can currently use with Annoto:
- Annoto Comments – Learn about the time-tag comment feature, which includes text, sentiment, and video replies.
- Annoto Interactions (Quizzes) – Learn about the quizzes feature to add a graded quiz activity to a video. Quiz scores will transfer automatically?to the D2L grade book.
- Assessment Criteria
- Annoto Personal Notes –? Learn about the personal note space to keep comments and information on a video only visible to the author. Personal Notes are downloadable and could be uploaded to a D2L assignment to assess students video comprehension.
- How to copy/import Annoto content into a new course
- Graded activities in Annoto
- Video: Annoto – How to copy/import Annoto into a new course (3:08)
Other Annoto Resources
Support
Faculty training and support, schedule:
- Contact Annoto Customer Care by email to assist with 1-on-1 training, questions, requests, or issues.
- Contact an ITS?to schedule one-on-one training.