The Coach Digital Compass Mark Up and Annotation Tool allows users to use annotations, a highlight tool, a write-on tool, and grade documents (teachers and admins). This document will give you and your students a review of the new tools available to teachers and students. We strongly recommend that you review some of these resources to with your students to provide them guidance in marking up the assigned content. The primary tool that you will want to emphasize is the Free Text Tool, which is found in the Annotation submenu. This guide will cover how to access that resource, as well as other helpful tools within the mark-up tool menu.
After a PDF lesson or assessment is given (and the “Assign PDF Interactively” option is selected), the student will have a very similar view as the teacher. Most of the tools are intuitive and can be reviewed during a class presentation. All the sub-menus help teachers and students define what tools the user wants to use.
There are two basic types of tools, the Layout tools and the Write-on Menus. Let’s take a closer look at some of the tools most frequently used. Some of them are more intuitive, so we will walk through some of the important buttons starting from the left.
Layout Menu. The buttons at the top of your PDF editor will provide you with a menu of tools that will help you view of the resource the way that you want to see it. You can download the document, change you your view pages, set the page settings, zoom in and out, pan, and select portions of the PDFs.
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The panel button. This button allows you to see the pages laid out in a side menu. You will be able to choose any of the pages , or reorient (flip) those page
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the view controls button. This will give you the ability to edit how the page transitions (it is recommended to use page by page), adjust the page orientation (rotate) , and change the Page Layout (single page, double page, etc)
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Annotate. This is the primary resource that will allow you to highlight text, write answers, and make comments, as well as other resources. Please note that not all tools are listed, but the most used resources. Each resource will allow you to adjust the color of your selected tool.
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Free Text Tool. This tool allows you to add text into to the document. You can answer questions and add text to the document. This will likely be the most used tool, so I would review this resource with your students.
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Eraser. The Eraser button allows you to erase edits made to the document.
Shapes. The Shapes section pulls up a menu of tools that relate to shapes. Below are the buttons that you will see. You can add and pastes paste these shapes on the documents for your students. Each shape’s color can be adjusted.
Ellipse/Circle. This button will allow your students to circle content on their pages.
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Arrow. This error tool allows you to draw arrows on the document. This is especially helpfully helpful for matching questions.
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View. The View button allows the user to use the markup and write-on tool, so the user can preview their responses.
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Search (Teacher Only). The Search button allows teachers to search for key words keywords within the lesson.
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The Clear Notes button (teacher only) allows you to clear all notes added to the document.
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