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Coach Digital Compass: PDF Editor Guide

Coach Digital Compass: PDF Editor Guide

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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 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 the resource the way that you want to see it. You can download the document, change your view pages, set the page settings, zoom in and out,  pan, and select portions of the PDFs.

Coach Digital Compass interface Lesson 1 Stories title toolbar with icons including expand zoom annotation shapes clear notes formatting options text editing tools and actions back buttons.

Menu Button

This button gives you the ability to Download, Save As, or Print. The Save As and Print options will be helpful if you add notes.

Coach Digital Compass interface Lesson 1 Stories title toolbar with open file options menu download, save, and print options. Actions and Back buttons.

 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

Lesson 1 Stories page with open panel navigation showing thumbnail previews of pages.

 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.)

Lesson 1 Stories page with View Controls menu open. Menu options include Continuous page, page by page, page orientation, rotate clockwise, rotate counterclockwise, page layout, single, double, cover facing page, compare pages, Enter full screen.

Write-On Menus

The Write-on Menu includes the View, Annotation and Shapes button. We recommend starting with the Annotation button

A digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories is displayed with a toolbar at the top. The toolbar features options like Actions, Back, View, Annotate, Shapes, zoom controls, and navigation buttons. The View, Annotate, and Shapes options are highlighted with a red rectangle. A portion of the lesson content is visible below, showing a purple banner with the text Lesson 1 on a teal background.

View

The View button allows the user to use the markup and write-on tool, so the user can preview their responses.

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.

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 paste these shapes on the documents for your students. Each shape’s color can be adjusted.

Digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories with toolbar. The Shapes option is highlighted. Below, a second toolbar with drawing tools is visible, including a pen, marker, highlighter, circle, rectangle, and arrow, all highlighted with a red rectangle. The document content shows a teal page with a purple banner reading Lesson 1 and the word Stories in large letters. A portion of an illustration is visible at the bottom, along with a text box with the phrase In a realistic story where the word realistic is

Underline tool

This tool allows you to underline words within the document.

Digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories with toolbar. The View option is highlighted with a red arrow pointing to it. A sidebar on the left shows a thumbnail of the current page and other pages in the document. The document content shows a teal page with a purple banner reading Lesson 1 and the word Stories in large letters. A portion of an illustration is visible at the bottom, along with a text box with the phrase In a realistic story, where the word realistic is underlined in red. The full text box c

 Highlight Text tool

The highlight text tool allows you to highlight the text of the lesson. You can also adjust the color of the highlight tool.

Digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories with toolbar. The Highlight (H) tool is selected and highlighted with a red arrow. A sidebar on the left shows a thumbnail of the current page and other pages in the document. The document content shows a teal page with a purple banner reading Lesson 1 and the word Stories in large letters. A portion of an illustration is visible at the bottom, along with a text box, whose text is highlighted in yellow, that reads In a realistic story, the made-up characters and e

Free Text Tool

This tool allows you to add text 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.

Digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories with toolbar. The Free Text (T) tool is selected and highlighted with a red arrow. A sidebar on the left shows a thumbnail of the current page and other pages in the document. The document content shows a teal page with a purple banner reading Lesson 1 and the word Stories in large letters. A portion of an illustration is visible at the bottom, along with a text box with the phrase In a realistic story where the word realistic is in bold text. The full text box co

 Note tool

This tool allows users to add notes. This can be especially useful when giving lessons to students. The color of the notes can be adjusted.

Digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories with toolbar. The Note (N) tool is selected and highlighted with a red arrow. A sidebar on the left shows a thumbnail of the current page and other pages in the document. The document content shows a teal page with a purple banner reading Lesson 1 and the word Stories in large letters. A portion of an illustration is visible at the bottom, along with a text box with the phrase In a realistic story where the word realistic is in bold text.

 Undo/Redo buttons

These buttons allow you to Undo and Redo edits that you’ve made to the document.

Digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories with toolbar. The Undo Redo (Ctrl Y) option is selected and highlighted with a red rectangle. A sidebar on the left shows a thumbnail of the current page and other pages in the document. The document content shows a teal page with a purple banner reading Lesson 1 and the word Stories in large letters. A portion of an illustration is visible at the bottom, along with a text box with the phrase In a realistic story where the word realistic is in bold text.

Eraser

The Eraser button allows you to erase edits made to the document.

A digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories with the Clear Notes option visible. The toolbar features options like Actions, Back, View, Annotate, Shapes, zoom controls, and navigation buttons. A second toolbar below displays various tools including Eraser (E) which is selected, and highlighted by a red arrow. The document content shows a teal page with a purple banner reading Lesson 1 and the word Stories in large letters. A portion of an illustration is visible at the bottom.

Additionally, we have other buttons that allow for some basic functions for the resource.

Search (Teacher Only) 

The Search button allows teachers to search for keywords within the lesson.

Comments button

This allows you to view all of the comments/annotations that have been made in the document.

A digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories is displayed with a toolbar at the top. The Clear Notes option is highlighted with a red rectangle, and a dropdown menu labeled Comments is visible below it. The toolbar features options like Actions, Back, View, Annotate, Shapes, zoom controls, and navigation buttons. A portion of the lesson content is visible below, showing a purple banner with the text Lesson 1 on a teal background.

Clear Notes button (teacher only) 

Allows you to clear all notes added to the document. You will be asked to confirm. This action is not reversible.

A digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories is displayed with a toolbar at the top. The Clear Notes option is highlighted with a red arrow. A pop up dialog box labeled Are you sure is visible in the center of the screen, asking Are you sure you want to remove your notes and annotations. This action is not reversible. Two buttons labeled Yes and No are present at the bottom of the dialog box. The toolbar features options like Actions, Back, View, Annotate, Shapes, zoom controls, and navigation buttons.

Pause/Finish (Student only)

This tool allows a student to pause their progress by clicking Pause or submit their responses by choosing Finish

A digital document titled Lesson 1, Stories is displayed with the Pause and Finish buttons highlighted in red. The document features a toolbar with options like Back, View, Annotate, Shapes, zoom controls, and navigation buttons. Below the toolbar, a section titled Illustrations and Retell Stories is visible. The document content shows a section labeled Warm Up with a purple banner, followed by a section titled Characters with a definition of a character in a story.

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