Category: Annotation

This category shows all annotation tools. Looking for something specific? Skip to Annotate Audio, Annotate Image/Video, Annotate Text, Annotate Web. Or see the Collaborative Annotation Tools comparison.

Kaltura Capture

Kaltura Capture: This is a screen-recording software native to NYU Stream. Using this software requires the user to download a desktop application that they can use to record their screen, themselves, or both simultaneously. Videos captured with the software are hosted in the user’s private NYU Stream Library. This screen recording software has the added …

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Loom

Loom: This is a screen recording platform offering both a desktop client and Google Chrome extension. Users can select how they want to record to suit their needs with the desktop client having a few additional annotation tools. When the recording is done, it automatically uploads to the user’s Loom account where they can change …

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PowerNotes

PowerNotes: an easy-to-use, minimally intrusive Chrome extension for web annotation and citation management. Ideal for taking quick or extensive annotations on texts you read online while the platform automatically stores your highlights, notes, and links to the sources, allowing you to organize them into different topics and different projects. You can export an outline of …

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Google Apps for Education

NYU has licensed a set of Google products to handle communication, calendars, file storage, and other teaching and learning apps, according to these Terms of Use. The full suite of Google Apps for Education include: Mail Calendar Drive (file storage and sharing) Classroom (course sites; NYU LMS (Brightspace) is the university’s official LMS) Docs (word processor) Sheets (spreadsheet) …

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NowComment

NowComment: Free web app for digitally annotating online documents in a “social context,” that is, allowing other students to read and add to each other’s annotations. Inline annotations on NowComment appear on a 2-pane interface, alongside the respectively annotated parts of the text, enabling contextualized reading and analysis. NowComment annotates html and Microsoft Word documents, but PDF upload …

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Scalar

Scalar: open-source, media-rich scholarly publishing platform ideal for creating non-linear narratives. Requiring minimal technical expertise, this platform offers its authors a robust database system for to catalogue their work, which can be experienced by the public through different pathways, and from different access points. It supports collaborative authoring, reader comments, and offers a wide range of annotating tools. FREE.  

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YouTube

YouTube: Did you know you can add annotations to any video that you upload to YouTube? There is no collaborative feature here, but it provides an easy way to add text, including links, to your video.Most popular video sharing platform, with capabilities for live streaming and creating video channels. Also, see tutorial for how to blur faces on YouTube …

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Kaizena

Kaizena: Designed specifically for teachers to annotate and provide feedback on student work, Kaizena integrates directly with Google Drive. Instructors can create groups for each class and provide feedback on student work by adding comments, audio feedback, and scores with a rubric. For common issues, instructors can create a library of lessons designed to help …

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PDF Expert

PDF Expert: a robust annotation tool for Mac desktops, iPads and iPhones. Offering a multitude of annotation options (highlighter, stamps, text, note, underline, shape, etc) on a wide range of files (PDF, document, spreadsheet, image, video, audio, etc). Offers seamless synchronization with cloud storage platforms such as DropBox and Box, and a Markup feature for …

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Google Docs

Google Docs

Google Docs: share Google Docs in order to collaborate on text documents, or limit students to “comment” on documents you don’t want them to edit. It autosaves every 2 seconds, allows synchronous editing, keeps a full revision history (which allows you to see who does what on group projects) and saves all comments automatically. FREE

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