This limits the page to just those in the group, both viewing and making annotations. īut I can create a “group” for just my class, and everyone must use the drop down at the top of the annotation entry box to select the group name. If you sign in with Hypothes.is, you’ll see that the page (I looked at Chapter 8) has already been annotated, obviously by other students. So I thought I’d try Hypothes.is on the open textbook I just adopted, The American Yawp. In Hypothes.is, the “via” proxy feature allows me to make any web page available for annotation just by adding to the front of the URL.
Replies have a grey background and are attached below the original annotation post, but are not nested. In Kami, the annotation panel takes up some real estate on the right of the screen, with the document zoomed out on the left (you can zoom in). It automatically posts any highlighted text in the annotation box, and allows for nested replies, which could generate true discussion. In Hypothes.is, the annotation area appears as a slide-out panel. Hypothes.is lets you see public annotations on the page, but you must have an account to annotate, so there will be no “guests” to track. For students who post as a “guest” I request that they sign their annotations so I know who posted. Kami allows me to upload pdfs of the articles right into their system, then any student with a Kami account can have their name on their annotation. Neither system (nor any annotation app, to my knowledge) works with LTI or inside the LMS, so I have to track manually. (Sorry, I don’t have gloves on so I didn’t touch Blackboard.) Hypothes.is, despite the https designation in via, forces a new tab in Canvas. Kami works using the Redirect tool in Canvas. Within minutes of creating a group in Hypothes.is, they contacted me.
KAMI ANNOTATE FREE
Within minutes setting up my free account, and then again when I paid, Kami contacted me. Hypothes.is is free.īoth seem to have good support. However, in Kami, though you can write and draw on the pdf, there is no formatting at all available in the annotations. The toolbar creates wiki-like coding which is awkward – even bold and italics look funny in draft mode.
Hypothes.is fits better on the page and its annotation panel retracts. It’s showier, with lots of big buttons for the features, and you can have your photo showing next to your posts. Kami has bigger font and is better on phones and mobile devices. Many other annotation plugins that are for private, browser-based use. Crocodoc, which I used to use happily, is gone. There are many tools that allow you to annotate web pages by adding a layer. (Keep in mind that Kami is just for pdfs, while Hypothes.is also does web pages. In the process of realizing payment was required to prevent Kami ads telling me and my students about the “early signs of a heart attack!”, I took a second (third?) look at Hypothes.is, a service with more of an educational/edupunk attitude.
KAMI ANNOTATE UPGRADE
But Kami has ads (yucky Google-style sidebar crap), so I’ve just asked my department to purchase the $50 upgrade to remove them. This semester I have begun using Kami (previously Notable PDF) so that my students can annotate scholarly articles I’ve uploaded in pdf.
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