Overview
Harmonize's annotation tools provides teachers and students with the ability to mark up and critique images. 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 Image Annotations
- Open any Harmonize discussion and navigate on the image you want to annotate.
- Click the Comment / Annotate button located beneath the image.
- The image will be copied into a new comment below the original post
- Select from a variety of annotation tools presented to the left of the copied image.
- Options for the selected tool will appear at the top including color, opacity, and size.
- Use the annotation tools to markup the image 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.
Image Annotation Tool Details
- When image annotations are complete, click Publish.
- Your comment, along with your annotated image, will appear inline when viewing the original post.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Why did I receive the error, "At least one visual annotation is required on this image"?
- This error appears if you click "Annotate Image" but do not add an annotation. You can delete the empty annotation row to fix it.