Annotating screens

The Show Show the Tutor's screen to Students., Exhibit Show one Student's screen to any number of other Student screens. and View features provide a useful annotate tool that can be used to highlight areas of a Tutor or Student's screen in order to emphasise a key learning point.

To annotate a Show screen

While the Tutor screen is being shown, you may want to draw the student's attention to a particular area. The annotate tools can be used to highlight the relevant part of the screen.

While showing, right-click the Showing icon in the system tray and select Annotate Screen.

Or

Double-click the Annotate icon.

The Annotate toolbar appears.
Select the tool, colour etc. and use the mouse to draw over the relevant part of the Tutor screen.

Note: If you do not want the Students to see the screen being annotated in real-time, click Suspend Show. This freezes the Show enabling you to continue working in the background. Click Suspend Show again to restart the Show, this refreshes the display at the Student screens.

To annotate a screen while viewing

While viewing, you can use the annotate tools to highlight a particular area of the Student screen. In Share and Watch mode, the Student can also use the Annotate toolbar. You can still use the other View window options while annotating, such as Chat, File Transfer etc.

View the required Student.
Select the Tools tab in the View window ribbon and click Annotate.
The Annotate toolbar will appear.

To annotate a screen while exhibiting

The screen of a Student that is being exhibited can be annotated in order to draw the attention of the other Students to a particular learning point. Depending on the mode being used, both the Tutor and/or the exhibited Student can use the annotate options.

Exhibit the required Student screen.
Select the Home tab in the Exhibit window ribbon and click Annotate.
The Annotate toolbar will appear.

Annotate toolbar

The following options are available:

File
Save Screen	Saves the annotated screen to a file.
Save Selection	When the 'select region' tool is active, you can highlight an area of the screen and save it to a file.
Exit	Ends annotate but stays in Show, Exhibit or View mode.

Edit
Clear Annotations	Clears the annotations.
Undo	Undo the most recent annotation.
Redo	Redo an annotation that has been undone.

Tool	Choose from a range of tools with which to annotate the screen. For example, freehand draw, draw an arrow and select a region.
Colour	Sets the pen colour.
Width	Sets the width of the line.
Font	Sets the text font.
Suspend Show	Suspends the Show (not available when viewing or exhibiting).
End Show	Ends the Show and takes you back to Tutor Console. (Not available when viewing or exhibiting.)