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Modified on: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 4:26 PM

You can place text comments, annotations, and stamps directly on submitted PDF assignments within the detailed grading view. If students have uploaded a PDF file to the assignment area, the PDF will appear in the main part of the detailed grading page. 

Using the Comments Feature

Comments work like post-it notes being directly placed on an assignment. You can type text into the note to leave a comment.

1. Click the Comments button. 

2. Place your cursor over the page where you want to make a comment. 

3. Hold down your left mouse button and drag to make a comment box. Your cursor will move inside the comment box as soon as you let go of the button.

1. Hover your mouse over or click the comment you wish to delete to expand the comment. 

2. Next, click on the arrow icon in the upper-right corner of the comment. 

3. Select Delete Comment from the drop down menu. 

Using the Annotation Tools

You can annotate an assignment with many different shapes, highlights, or basic pen marks. 

Create an Annotation

1. Click the annotation color (ink drop button in the image above) to select the color you wish to use. 

2. Click the annotation tool you want to use (from left to right in image above):

• Pen – freehand “write” notes or other markup
• Line – draw a straight line
• Rectangle – draw a box
• Oval – draw a circle
• Highlight – put a transparent color over text, like a highlighter pen

3. Place your cursor on the portion of the text you want to annotate. 

4. Hold down your left mouse button and drag your cursor to make the annotation.

Delete an Annotation

1. Click the Select button on the Comment and Annotation bar.  

2. Click the annotation you want to delete. The annotation will highlight and a little trash can icon will appear. 

3. Click the trash can icon.

Using the Stamp Tool

The stamp tool will place a selected image on the assignment for more visual feedback. 

Creating a Stamp

1. Click on the stamp button on the Comments and Annotation bar. A drop down menu of stamps will appear. 

2. Next, click the stamp icon you want to use.

3. Click on the paper where you want to place the stamp.

4. To create a larger stamp, press down and hold your left mouse button and drag to the size you want. 

Deleting a Stamp

1.Click the Select tool.  

2.Click on the stamp you want to delete. The stamp will highlight and a little trash can icon appears. 

3.Click the trash icon to delete the stamp.

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Instructors can mark and  leave digital comments on  Assignment submissions within Moodle by using the Annotate PDF  feedback option. Annotate PDF allows you to   highlight, write or type comments, add stamps, and post notes in PDF documents submitted by students using any device with a web browser.

Before you start , you will need access to the following:

• An Instructor of record , Other editing teacher , or Non-editing teacher role in a Bryn Mawr Moodle course  

Set Up the Assignment

WARNING: Your Assignment must be set up to require PDF file submissions and use the  Annotate PDF feedback type before students start submitting work. (You won't be able to make changes after that point.) 

• Create your Assignment if you haven't already (c lick +Add an activity or resource ; then s elect Assignment ).
• Open the Assignment Settings page (click the Assignment to open it, then click  S ettings in the top menu). 
• Check the File Submissions  box (required).
• Set Maximum number of uploaded files to 1 (recommended).
• Type .pdf in the Accepted file types box (required).

• Under Feedback Types , check Feedback Comments and Annotate PDF.

• Adjust the remaining settings if desired, then click   Save and Display  or  Save and return to course.

Help students submit PDFs

It is increasingly common for students to submit coursework for K-12 courses through Google drive or docs, and some college   students may not know how to save, export, or print files as PDFs. However, it is easy to do using software that is widely available to students and a good skill to learn before entering the workforce!

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Mark using annotate PDF

• Click the Assignment to open it.
• Click Grade .

• Enter the Grade and any overall Feedback comments in the fields provided . (You can include images, files and media clips in you comments, see  Moodle: Use the text editor  for details.)
• If you enabled the Feedback files type in your assignment settings, use the  Feedback files  menu to upload them.

• Click Save Changes as you go and Save and Show Next to finish marking a submission and move on to the next one.

Exporting copies of marked submissions

If you want to keep copies of annotated submission for your records:

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Make assignment annotating and feedback easier to read and access with Moodle 3.3

Teachers, we are pleased to announce that annotating assignments is now enhanced in Moodle 3.3 with the possibility of collapsing and expanding comments!

In previous versions of Moodle, comments teachers provide while annotating assignments would sometimes cover the original text. Of course this makes it hard to read and perhaps also limits how much feedback teachers can provide.

Now, this new (and very useful feature) in Moodle gives teachers the option of writing comprehensive feedback on assignments that can be collapsed so it won’t block over the original text.

This then makes reading feedback easier for students.

Using this new feature is also super simple.

When teachers are grading assignments and are adding comments as feedback for the student, comments are automatically collapsed as they move to a different area.

If they need to see the comments again, the teachers simply need to click on them and the comments enlarge to become readable.

In addition, teachers can also collapse and expand all comments at once through a click of a button.

Thank you to Moodle community member, Tony Butler, for working on this new improvement with us.

Enjoy adding comprehensive comments when annotating assignment submissions and being able to collapse them for greater readability.

Watch our step by step guide to see how the assignment collapsible comments in Moodle 3.3 works.

Assignment collapsible comments

• Download Moodle 3.3 or contact a Moodle Partner for upgrading assistance
• Download the Moodle 3.3 assignment collapsible comments explainer poster
• Read the Moodle 3.3 release notes

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Grading Assignments in Moodle with the Built-in Annotation Tool

Using the built-in assignment grader tool.

Did you know new improvements have been made to Moodle’s built-in Assignment Activity grading interface? The new interface will convert student submissions to PDF so that you can view and annotate assignments on your desktop in addition to entering grades and feedback.

The built-in grading function in Assignments allows the grader to:

• Make annotated comments directly into the file, which Moodle automatically converts to a pdf
• Give short, general comments in the Feedback Comments text box
• Upload feedback files into the proper feedback box
• Grade the submission

Using the Built-in Annotation Tool

The top left of the banner allows you to navigate back to the course site page or assignment description page. The top center displays the current student’s name and email information. The top right of the banner allows you to navigate to other student submissions.

Right Column

The right column of the annotation tool displays a link to the assignment submission file in its original file format. It also contains a feedback comments text box, and the feedback files upload box.

Center Area

The center area displays the PDF document to be annotated. Use the annotation toolbar to mark up the submitted PDF document. You can use the highlighter, comment box, and pen tool from the top menu bar.

Footer Area

At the bottom of the screen there are three options: Notify Students, Save, and Reset.

• Notify students will send the current student an email notifying them that their assignment has been graded. Uncheck this box if you do not want the student to receive a notification
• Save changes is required to complete grading the assignment of the current student selected
• Reset will clear all feedback comments

If you’d like to learn more about the different ways to grade Assignments in Moodle take a look at the video below. Or feel free to reach out to the Academic Technologist team at [email protected] . We’d be happy to go over this tool or any other Moodle question with you at anytime.

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Annotating Moodle Assignment Files

Annotating assignment files using built-in moodle tools.

Instructors can use the built-in annotation tools in Moodle Assignments to markup files submitted by students.

• Log in to moodle.lafayette.edu and select the appropriate course.
• Go to the Moodle Assignment you want to add annotations and click [View all submissions].
• Click the [Grade]  button beside the name of the student’s files you want to annotate.

• Click the [Save changes] or [Save and show next] button after adding annotations.

Annotating Assignment Files Using Notability

To use something beyond the built-in annotation tools, many have found Notability on an iPad to be an intuitive way to annotate assignment submissions.

Downloading the files from Moodle

• On your iPad, log in to Moodle in Safari.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and be sure “ Download submission in folders ” is unchecked.
• Scroll back to the top and select the [Download all submissions] button in the upper right.

Importing files into Notability

Unzipping the downloaded file.

• Open the Files app on your iPad.
• You should see a “ Downloads ” folder, likely under the “ Favorites ” section on the left.
• Click the zip file that was just downloaded. This will unzip it.

Importing the files into Notability

• A subject is like a category and you don’t have to have one. However, if you’re going to do this a lot, creating at least one subject for each of your courses will help keep things better organized.
• Click the import button (it looks like a box with a down-facing arrow inside it) from the upper-right corner of Notability.
• Select “ Files ” from the drop-down menu and click “ Browse ” from the bottom.
• Click the “ Downloads ” folder and click the folder that was just created.
• Click “ Select ” from the upper-right and then click “ Select All ” in the upper-left. Click “ Open ” from the upper-right.
• Choose “ Create Separate Notes ” and click “ Next ” until you can select “ Import .”
• Annotate the files in Notability as you see fit.

Exporting, preparing, and uploading files to Moodle

DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE NAMES. Doing so will prevent the assignments from merging correctly back into the assignment.

Exporting Notability files

• In Notability , click the Export button, which looks like a box with an upward-facing arrow inside it.
• Select the files you want to export.
• Click the Export button again.
• Select “ Google Drive ” and choose where to save these files. Click “ Send to Google Drive .” Unfortunately, Notability doesn’t allow you to export to the Files app).

Creating a zip file of the exported PDFs

• Select “ Google Drive ” from the left and navigate to the folder where you exported the files. If you don’t see Google Drive listed as a Location, you may need to edit the sidebar in your Files app to toggle on Google Drive.
• Click the “ Select ” button in the upper-right and select the files you wish to upload back into Moodle.
• Click the “ More ” button in the bottom-right and choose “ Compress .” This will zip the files into one file.

Uploading the zipped file to the Moodle Assignment

• Return to Moodle in Safari, navigate to the Assignment, and click “ View all submissions .”
• From the “ Grading action ” drop-down menu, select “ Upload multiple feedback files in a zip .”
• Click the “ Choose a file ” button, click “ Choose File ,” click “ Browse ,” and click “ Locations ” so you can select “ Google Drive .” From there, navigate to the folder where you created the zip file and select it (the default name will be Archive.zip).
• Click the “ Upload this file ” button and then click “ Import feedback file(s) .” Click “ Confirm ” and then “ Continue .”

Grade and Annotate Student Assignment Submissions

• Publication date November 14, 2017

Introduction

When students submit assignment files to Moodle assignments you can use the built-in viewer and editor to annotate them. You can add comments, highlight, or draw on student work from within Moodle.

Important Note

You can enable or disable PDF Annotation Feedback at any time in an Assignment settings under the Submission Settings heading.

Visit the assignment and click the  Grade  option

You should now see a student submission.

Using the toolbar you can:

• add comments (which can be saved to a comments bank for re-use)
• draw freehand or use shapes
• add stamps (checkmark, red X, etc)
• Add a grade and summary feedback on the grade panel
• navigate between student submissions

If you are happy with your annotations, click  Save . To start over click  Reset.

You can click the arrows in the Change user textbox to navigate to the next student submission, search for a student submission by their name, or click the filter to quickly view and jump to submissions

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Annotate Student Assignment Submissions

How can we help.

When students submit files (Word documents, presentation slides, graphics, etc), they will automatically be converted into PDFs that you can annotate. You can add comments, highlight, or draw on student work within Moodle.

Video Overview

• Open the assignment you want to grade.
• Click  Grade .

• Add comments (which can be saved to a comments bank for re-use)
• Draw freehand or use shapes
• Add stamps (checkmark, red X, etc)
• Add a grade and summary feedback on the grade panel
• Navigate between student submissions

• If you are happy with your annotations, click  Save . To start over, click  Reset .

• You can click the arrows to navigate to the next student submission, search for a student submission by name, or click the filter to quickly view and jump to submissions.

What do the annotation tools do?

Annotating a PDF file in Moodle

Did you know that teachers can annotate students’ PDF submissions in Moodle? This means you can place text comments and annotations directly on submitted PDF assignments in Moodle without using any separate software. Navigate to your Moodle course page, select Assignments, the Grading page and the Annotate PDF feature.

What do I need?

You need a submitted PDF file and the Annotate PDF plugin.

What do I need to do?

Go to the Assignment > Grading page to find the PDF annotator. You can only annotate PDF files. If the file format is not PDF, you cannot add comments directly to the file.  Once you have saved your changes, the student will find the annotated file underneath the original PDF file on the assignment page.

What should I take into account?

It is nowadays possible to annotate and mark-up files using a variety of applications, such as the O365 products (Word, Excel, OneNote) and PDF annotators. Comments can even be directly added to students’ video assignments. If Moodle’s Annotate PDF plugin seems complicated, we definitely encourage you to try out the others. The most important thing is that you are able to provide feedback to your students, no matter what the channel.

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Moodle - pdf annotation instructions.

Instructors can now provide detailed feedback on Moodle assignment submissions without downloading them using the Annotate PDF tool. This article explains how to enable and use Annotate PDF to grade student work. Annotate PDF option works best when students submit their work in a single PDF file, and this article also explains how to ensure this.

Enabling Annotate PDF for an Assignment

The steps below assume you are creating a new Assignment. To enable this feature on an existing Assignment, open it, click the gear icon, and choose Edit Settings, then skip to step 4.

• Turn editing on if it isn’t already (click the gear icon and choose Turn editing on).
• Click +Add an activity or resource in the course section where you wish your assignment to appear.
• From the list of activities, select Assignment.
• Check the File Submissions box (required).
• Set Maximum number of uploaded files to 1 (recommended).
• Type .pdf in the Accepted file types box (recommended)

      5.    Under Feedback Types, check Feedback Comments and Annotate PDF.

      6.    Adjust remaining settings as needed, then click Save and Return to Course

Marking with Annotate PDF Teachers can highlight, write, type, add stamps, and post notes in a PDF document submitted by a student when Annotate PDF is enabled. They can use a mouse, trackpad, or WACOM tablet to make handwritten markings when using a computer or an iPencil, stylus, or finger when grading on a iPad or other tablet. To use Annotate PDF:

• Click on the assignment in your Moodle page to open it.
• Under the summary of submissions and grading status, click Grade.
• Submissions will open one at a time in an annotation window as shown below.

      4. Select a tool from the annotation toolbar at the top of the window to mark the submission

      5. Enter the Grade and any overall Feedback Comments in the pane to the right of the annotation window. In addition to typing feedback, you can add files and links, or record short audio (microphone button) or video (camera button) clips.

      6. Click Save Changes to save as you go and Save and Show Next when you are ready to proceed to the next submission.

• If the document in annotation window is blank, the conversion to PDF failed (for a file submitted in a different format) or Annotate PDF could not read the PDF file. You will need to download the file using the link in the pane to the right of the annotation window and add annotations outside of Moodle.
• To save a copy of your annotations and feedback outside of Moodle, click the Download Feedback PDF link beneath the Feedback Comments box.

Ensuring Students Submit Good PDFs The Annotate PDF feature only works with PDF files. If students submit files in other formats, Moodle will try to them to PDF so that you can mark them, but this conversion process does not work reliably or well. For best results when using Annotate PDF, have your students save their assignments as a single PDF file before they upload them

• You can force students to submit assignments as a single PDF file using the settings recommended above.
• Choose Save as PDF
• Choose where to save the file, edit the filename (optional), and click Save.

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Assignment: Annotate PDF - Download all annotated PDFs (as Zip)

• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: None
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.2 , 2.7.3 , 2.8.1 , 4.1
• Component/s: Assignment
• hqteam_alpha
• Affected Branches: MOODLE_26_STABLE, MOODLE_27_STABLE, MOODLE_28_STABLE, MOODLE_401_STABLE
• Pull from Repository: https://github.com/alexmorrisnz/moodle.git
• Pull Main Branch: MDL-45264 -master-download_all_feedback
• Pull Main Diff URL: https://github.com/moodle/moodle/compare/master...alexmorrisnz:moodle:MDL-45264-master-download_all_feedback
• Login as Admin.
• Create a Course.
• Enrol a Student into the Course.
• Create an Assignment activity with File submissions and Annotate PDF feedback enabled in the Course.
• Login as a Student.
• Go to Course.
• Go to Assignment.
• Add and submit a file submission (.pdf)
• Click on 'View all submissions'
• Click 'Grade' on the Student's submission,
• Using the available tools, draw or add stamps on it to generate the the annotated feedback file.
• Save changes.
• Navigate back to the view all submissions page.
• Select some or all submissions from the table
• confirm an alert is shown requesting to confirm the action
• confirm this starts a download process of a zip file
• after the file is downloaded, confirm the zip file contains the annotated pdf versions of the selected submission(s).

Description

When grading submissions for an assignment there is a new feature to Annotate PDFs within the browser.

Within the "Grading action" menu, there is an option to download all submissions, but no option to download all annotated PDFs.

We have some instructors who like to save their feedback files locally as a backup, so this option would make it easier to do that when dealing with large classes.

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Grade Assignments Using Annotate PDF

This tutorial shows how to create an assignment that uses the annotate pdf tool which allows instructors to grade assignments without downloading them..

Note:  It is not recommended using this tool to provide feedback for an assignment that students will need to revise, work on further, etc. This is because students will receive the feedback in the form of a PDF, which they won't be able to edit.

To create an Assignment with Annotate PDF:

• Follow the instructions to Create an Assignment
• When you get to the settings choose Submission Types, Feedback types, Grade settings, as described below:

Submission types

• Make sure the File Submissions  box is selected.
• In the  Accepted file types area, add Documents which includes .pdf files. (Note Annotated PDF grader will also allow you to annotate Word docs).

Feedback Types

• After you've finished setting up the Assignment, click to view it.

Marking with Annotate PDF

Graders can highlight, write, type, and add stamps and post notes in a PDF document submitted by a student when Annotate PDF is enabled. They can use a mouse, trackpad, or WACOM tablet to make handwritten markings when using a computer or an iPencil, stylus, or finger when grading on an iPad or other tablet.

• Click the assignment you would like to grade from within your course

The submission(s) will open one at a time in an annotation window as shown below. Navigate through the student submissions using the grading tools to annotate directly on the assignment submitted.

Select a tool from the annotation toolbar at the top of the window to mark the submission.

• If the document in annotation window is blank, the conversion to PDF failed (for a file submitted in a different format) or Annotate PDF could not read the PDF file. You will need to download the file using the link in the pane to the right of the annotation window and add annotations outside of Moodle.
• To save a copy of your annotations and feedback outside of Moodle, click the Download Feedback PDF link beneath the Feedback Comments box.
• The Annotate PDF feature works with PDF and Word doc files . If students submit files in other formats, Moodle will try to convert them to PDF so that you can mark them, but this conversion process does not work reliably. For best results when using Annotate PDF, have your students save their assignments as a single PDF file for upload.

Tip Deleting a Stamp

• Click on the stamp you want to delete. The stamp will highlight a little trash can icon appears.
• Click the trash can icon to delete the stamp.

Another perspective - Moodle: Grade assignments with Annotate PDF

Documentation

Improve Annotation

• 1 Introduction
• 2.1 Rendering the PDF
• 2.2 Annotating the PDF
• 3 Prototype / mock-ups
• 4 Development tasks
• 5 Other ideas for future development

Introduction

This is a proposal for improving Annotation in Moodle by Catalyst IT - thanks to Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University for providing support with researching this project.

The “uploadpdf” assignment feedback plugin allows teachers to annotate assignments during the grading process. We would like to improve the user experience for annotation by allowing the teacher to scroll through the pages like a normal document and implement an “Undo” feature, allowing a teacher to undo previous changes like the deletion of an object.

The existing annotation feature in Moodle is built using the YUI Javascript library which has not been maintained by the original developers since 2014 and has been generally deprecated in Moodle (no new YUI code has been generally allowed in Moodle since 2.9).

Moodle has also been improving the core grade API and recently in Moodle 3.8 added a new user interface within the forum activity for grading with the intention of using this same interface for the assignment grading interface but has not yet implemented this in assignment yet.

Investing significant development effort on the existing annotation plugin would be unwise due to the existing use of YUI and we believe it would be more useful to develop a brand new annotation tool in Moodle.

There is also potential for annotation of content to be useful outside the assignment activity – for example in essay questions, forum, workshop activities and 3rd party plugins like mod_annotatepdf so we propose that annotation functionality is added to the core Grade API so that it can be re-used anywhere in Moodle where grades are also used.

External libraries

Rendering the pdf.

Moodle uses a combination of libraries to convert a document to a pdf, then converts the pdf into an image per page to allow annotation and then stiches it all back into a pdf again so that it can be downloaded - this is complex, results in accessibility issues and bugs like MDL-64431 .

We propose that we that we render the PDF directly in the browser using Mozilla's pdf.js , and then add an annotation UI on top which stores the annotations directly in the PDF.

Annotating the PDF

Ideally we wouldn't implement our own Annotation library like we have done in the existing plugin, however there doesn’t appear to be many well maintained open source annotation libraries that we can re-use in Moodle.

• https://github.com/highkite/pdfAnnotate – This seems to be the most promising, however it is in early development stage, stores annotations within the pdf itself, Supports the main components that uploadpdf tool currently supports except the “stamp” and doesn’t seem to have built-in undo/redo support. Doesn’t implement a UI, but Moodle would be providing this anyway. Other advantage of using a JS library with annotations stored within the document itself is that there is potential for this to be re-used within an offline mobile app. Using this library would also mean a decision to only support annotations on pdf documents which I think is ok. The developer behind this project has expressed an interest in helping us use this.
• Apache Annotator https://annotator.apache.org/ - Incubating project - allows annotation on any html content which would be a nice idea to allow annotations directly on forum posts etc, however at this state the project only allows you to select text or css selectors – annoation in Moodle requires more flexibility – drawing/circles etc.
• http://annotatorjs.org/ - Unmaintained since 2017hypothes.is – uses a python-based back-end to store annotations.
• https://github.com/bhargavacc/pdf-annotation – unmaintained since 2016
• https://github.com/instructure/pdf-annotate.js – unmaintained since 2018, requires a storage layer for annotations.
• https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_pdfannotator - (3rd party Moodle plugin) Uses Mozilla's pdf.js already, uses https://github.com/instructure/pdf-annotate.js for performing annotations - doesn't contain undo/redo features.

Prototype / mock-ups

See below for a mockup of a possible pdf annotation interface using the new grading UI from the forum activity.

Development tasks

• Implement Behat tests for the forum grading panel ( https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-66666 ) to help prevent any regressions while reworking the grading UI.
• Re-work the Forum grading UI so that it is a core function that other activities can re-use.
• Create a new centralised annotation API initally using https://github.com/highkite/pdfAnnotate with a nice Moodle UI (images/buttons etc) but leaving room for the annotation API to be extended further in future with other interfaces like Apache annotator for html content. Initially this would only support in-browser editing with the full pdf being sent back to the server for storing.
• Create a new assignment feedback plugin that re-uses the new core grading UI (based on forum) and integrates the core annotation API
• Add support for “stamps” (custom images) within the pdfAnnotate library.
• Add support for undo process within the pdfAnnotate library and Moodle’s UI.

Other ideas for future development

• Allow students to annotate their own files ( MDL-68243 )
• Some PDF files are quite large and sending the full edited pdf back to the server is in-efficient, the highkite library supports being run server side using nodejs - investigate using an optional server-side process to save annotations.
• Add support for annotations to other areas like essay quiz questions, Workshop activity etc.
• Add support for devices like the iPad Pencil.
• Add support to allow grading to occur offline (embedding the JS library within our Mobile app).
• Add support for Apache annotator for annotating html content.