How to Use Annotation

Annotation Palette

GrapeSEED Connect provides an annotation palette for teachers to mark on the component images and whiteboard. This palette does not create permanent marks but allows the teacher to digitally point or select parts of the materials and even to type words onto the screen.

There are 10 tools in the annotation palette:

Utility tools:

• The is the default tool and it allows the teacher’s cursor to be visible to students when the cursor is on the component image or whiteboard.
• The allows the teacher to create a text box and type text visible to the student.
• The allows the teacher to point, underline, or otherwise draw lines that will automatically be removed in the same direction a mark is drawn. This tool is ideal for tracking text while reading or temporarily circling a part of the component image.
• The functions in the same way as the laser tool except that the marks stay on the component image until erased or moving to a different component image.
• The creates a circle shape on the component image/whiteboard which can then be moved resized or rotated.
• The creates a square shape on the component image/whiteboard which can then be moved resized or rotated.
• The removes one drawn item at a time in reverse order that they are drawn. For example, if I draw a vertical line, a horizontal line, and a curvy line, then choose to use the , it would remove the curvy line first, the horizontal line second, and the vertical line last.
• The removes all drawings on the current component image/whiteboard.

Tool Settings:

• The will set the width of lines drawn after the setting is selected.
• The will set the color of items drawn after the setting is selected.

How to Use the Whiteboard

The Whiteboard is a place for the teacher to draw and/or type content for the students. To open the whiteboard, simply click on the gray dropdown bar underneath the teacher video feed. When opening the whiteboard, it will replace whatever the students are currently looking at. For example, if the lesson plan is open and content is being displayed, opening the whiteboard will hide the content and the whiteboard will be displayed for students instead. To use the whiteboard, simply select the annotation tool you want to use from the annotation palette and begin annotating.