OVERVIEW
Annoto is an add-on that can enhance the use of course videos in Blackboard for both instructors and students. Annoto’s optional features include detailed viewing analytics for instructors, as well as the addition of interactive tools that students can use while watching course videos.
DESCRIPTION & FEATURES
- Analytics, Video Analytics, and Analytics Export provide data on how students interact with course video content. Collecting this video data is one of the most powerful uses of Annoto, so we recommend enabling all three of these options as early as possible. If these options are enabled later on, the analytics will not include earlier video activity.
- Personal Notes allows students to type and save their own notes in a panel alongside each course video. Students can place notes at specific timestamps in the videos and save them to view and download later. Instructors can see how many notes have been added by each student, as well as general statistics on the use of Personal Notes in the entire course. The notes themselves, however, are only available to the student who wrote them (unless they intentionally download and share them with the instructor).
- Quizzes allow an instructor to build simple knowledge checks and incorporate them into video watching. Multiple choice and True/False questions can be added at specific timestamps in the video to help keep students engaged and to help with formative assessment. These quizzes should not be used for any high-stakes assessment purposes.
- If an instructor wishes to build more extensive interactions around video content, features such as Comments, Video Comments, Reactions, Chat, and Activity Feed are also available. Please reach out to LeBow Instructional Technology to discuss strategies for implementing these options.
This article in Drexel University’s Instructional Technology blog includes additional information about some student-facing features in Annoto.
After enabling the default features that you’d like to apply to all videos, you can enable and disable specific features for individual videos through the Hub.
GETTING STARTED
To start using Annoto in your course, please reach out to the LeBow InTech Team. Once the Annoto add-on is enabled in your course, you can use the related articles as a guide for setting your feature preferences and accessing video analytics.
SUPPORT
If you have any questions or would like assistance configuring Annoto for your course, please contact the LeBow Instructional Tech Services department at lebowintech@drexel.edu.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Recommendation: In order to get the minimum benefit out of Annoto, instructors should turn on both the Personal Notes and the set of Analytics features (Analytics, Video Analytics, and Analytics Export).