Annotation ReDo

[Tim Morland]

One feature that was useful in v1 seems not to work in v2.

Let me describe things...

In the contest of Maths teaching, we would often annotate over graph drawing software.

We would ask a student to sketch (or complete) a graph as an annotation over a pair of axes in the Graph window.

Then we would leave the annotation mode, get the software to plot the actual graph, and then switch back to annotation mode.

The student's effort would no longer be visible but a click on the ReDo button would bring it back for comparison with the accurately plotted version.

This ReDo feature does not seem to work in v2.

Am I missing something? :confused:

[Rob Radcliffe]

You need to go to Menu, Studio Settings, General, and select Overlay Mode. When you annotate over the Windows Program, a transparent window will appear that you can resize, minimise or maximise, or toggle with the desktop annotate toggle button. You can use the pen to annotate over the screen, minimise the overlay window, interact with the software, then maximise the overlay window again to bring back the annotations. I think you can only use the pen or eraser tool in this window.

In Copy Mode you can use all the annotations, but can't, I think, bring them back up - you can set the menu up so that clicking the desktop annotation toggle gives you the option of copy or overlay mode...

Hope this helps! (although I just realised it only works in Windows 2000/XP) :cool:

[Tim Morland]

Thanks for this.

I'll give it a try

[Tim Morland]

Yepp!

This works well.

[Rob Radcliffe]

Great! smile.gif

[Jon' Allen]

Hi Tim

AS2 offers 2 modes:
1.Overlay mode - which is effectively an acetate sheet that is resizable and lays over the applicn that you want to annotate. One big diff. to AS1 is you can still use the Select tool to pick through the acetate and operate the underlying applicn. If you want a permanent record of your applicn. + annotations then you can use the camera tool to snapshot it to the flipchart (same as with AS1)
2. Copy mode - if you select this it puts an acetate over the whole applicn so you can annotate, but when you return to the applicn by hitting the Return to Live Desktop button you will have created (without knowing it!!) the first page of a Desktop Flipchart. If you start annotating on the next live screen you will notice the flipchart page controls on the side, because you could now go pack to your first page of applicn+annotations.
So for instance if you were working with pupils on a long Word doc as you annotate on a section, return to the live applicn to scroll down and then annotate on the next section you are creating a desktop flipchart that allows you to review what you have done further back up the doc.
If you close AS2 it will ask you if you want to save this desktop flipchart.
As Rob points out above you can set AS2 to Copy or Overlay mode or get it to offer you a choice.

Hope this is clear - it took me a while to realise what was going on!! but now I find it very useful.

[Geoff Gould]

The desktop flipcharts that appear when using annotation tools on applications can be very confusing to some teachers. When they think they have saved their flipchart, suddenly another box appears saying 'do you want to save' (referring to the desktop flipchart). Whilst every teacher should really look at the box and see that it is a desktop flipchart not their actual flipchart, the reality is that teachers don't look and may not have yet been taught about desktop flipcharts.

Would it be best to turn off this feature as the default?

Another gripe is that I cannot get the highlighter pen to work when in Overlay mode.

Nevertheless - some brilliant features!