Overview
Harmonize's annotation tools provides teachers and students with the ability to mark up and critique videos. 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 Video Annotations
- Open any Harmonize discussion and navigate on the video you want to annotate.
- Click the Comment / Annotate button located beneath the video.
- The video will be copied into a new comment below the original post
- Navigate to the video frame where you'd like to leave an annotation and click Annotate.
- Select from a variety of annotation tools presented to the left of the copied video.
- Options for the selected tool will appear at the top including color, opacity, and size.
- Use the annotation tools to markup the selected video frames and drop callouts to leave comments.
- Clicking on the i icon at the bottom of the list of annotation tools will display all of the keyboard shortcuts for the various tools.
Video Annotation Tool Details
- When video annotations are complete, click Publish.
- Your comment, along with your annotated video, will appear inline when viewing the original post.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Does each person annotate the same video.
- No. Each user receives their own copy of the video to annotate.
Q. Can I leave video feedback as a timestamped comment?
- No. Timestamped comments are text only.