Annotation – MacDigital

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

If you’ve added lots of readings and assignments to Perusall and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It even preserves your assignment links on Moodle. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations. These instructions walk you through the process step-by-step. In...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based

Annotating Emailed Attachments On Your iPad

There are numerous ways to get files onto and off your iPad when you’d like to do things like annotate with the Apple Pencil. Using Google Drive is one way the ATS team recommends. But sometimes email is the easiest method. Using a mobile mail app (like Gmail’s app) and Notability, you can easily download a PDF or Word doc...

Annotation/Sharing Media/Whiteboard

Sharing Your iPad Screen via a Windows PC – Off Campus

The above video walks you through how to share you iPad screen in a Zoom meeting that’s hosted (joined) on a Windows computer. You essentially connect the two devices — your PC and your iPad — via the iPad’s AirPlay protocol. This will be useful for whiteboarding during synchronous classes, or when recording mini-lectures. Notably, this method only works at...

Annotation/Uncategorized/Whiteboard

Getting Files Onto (and Off Of) Your iPad

Whether you’re using your iPad to annotate an article during class or recording a lecture over your Powerpoint slide deck, you’ll need a way to get documents onto (and off) your iPad. The best set up for this depends on a number of factors like what cloud storage or iPad apps you already use. In general, though, the easiest option...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Lecture/Presentations/Sharing Media/Synchronous/Whiteboard

Perusall Workshop Recording

The above is a recording of the social annotation tools workshop, which focused on a Peruall, a platform that allows for in-line, threaded commentary on and discussions of texts. Formatted as a VoiceThread, the recording includes two “slides,” which you can toggle between using the arrows on the lower right. (Here is a direct link to the recording, if you’d...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion

Getting Started with Office on an iPad

The brief video covers how to get Microsoft Office applications (like Powerpoint or Excel) installed on an iPad using your Macalester credentials. These Office apps are especially useful if you’re using your tech kit to annotate slideshows or other documents, either for making recordings, or during synchronous class meetings.

Annotation/Asynchronous/Lecture/Synchronous/Whiteboard

Grading with an iPad & Apple Pencil in Moodle

The iPad and Apple Pencil, two tools that come in the tech kit, enable teachers to provide handwritten feedback to students. Watch this video to learn how to grade assignments using the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Moodle’s built-in PDF grader.

Access and Inclusion/Annotation/Assignments/Whiteboard

RefWorks

RefWorks allows you to both manage citations in a personal-to-you database and annotate PDFs asynchronously.

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based/Practice-based

Hypothes.is

Hypothes.is a free annotation tool in which you can create groups and privately share annotations, on a PDF, or even a webpage.

Annotation/Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Discussion-based/Flipped Classroom/Practice-based

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