Overview
Harmonize's annotation tools provides teachers and students with the ability to mark up PDFs. This makes for an interactive experience between the instructor and students, allowing students to get feedback quicker and online. Students may also annotate and critique the work of their fellow classmates, promoting social and inclusive learning via media-based student to student interaction.
Creating PDF Annotations
PDF Annotation provides instructors and students with the ability to markup and critique PDFs within Harmonize.
- Highlight text and drop pins anywhere in a PDF
- Add your own comments and reply to others’ annotations
- Easily jump to new annotations and unread replies
- Tag other users in comments and replies
Once the PDF Annotation is created by the instructor, both instructors and student can add new annotations as well as respond to the annotations of others. To do so, navigate to any PDF Annotation and use the markup tools outlined below to create annotations.
PDF Annotation Tool Details
1: Navigation and Filtering Options
These are the options that appear at the top of the PDF.
| Show / Hide Annotations | |
| Previous / Next Annotation | |
| Zoom In, Zoom Out, Select Magnification |
Section 2: Annotation Tools
These tools appear to the left of the PDF.
| Create a Highlight | |
| Drop a Pin | |
| Move / Pan |
Section 3: Annotation Menu
This lets you open and close the annotations panel.
| Open / Close Annotations Panel |
The Annotations Panel
- [1] Go to previous or next annotation.
- [2] Open the Annotation Action Menu to edit or delete your annotation.
- [3] Click to Reply to this annotation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Can students use the PDF Annotations feature to upload their own PDFs for annotation by the rest of the class?
- Uploading PDFs via the PDF Annotation feature is limited to instructors at this time. Students are able to add annotations to any PDF Annotation created by the instructor as well as respond to the annotations of their classmates.
Q. I don't see the highlighter tool when I open my annotations assignment. Is it not available?
- When using a mobile device the "Create a Highlight" tool is unavailable and only the "Drop a Pin" and "Move/Pan" toolbar options are present. You are still able to leave an annotation by dropping a pin near the passage you want to annotate and completing your comment in the annotations panel that appears.