Annotations

Annotation Mode allows adding colored markers with text, like sticky notes, to components. Annotations can include “sketches” –arrows and circles. They are only visible in Author mode.

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1 Using the sites console, navigate to the site of your institution.2 Select the page and open it for edit.

3 Click the Annotation Toggle icon to open Annotation Mode.

4 The display will change so that you can add annotations.

5 Click the icon, in the upper left corner to add an annotation. Move the mouse to the text paragraph and click to drop theannotation.

*Notice that there is a little delete icon that you can use to delete the annotation.

6 Enter some text and choose the color that you would like. Clickanywhere to close the annotation dialog.

7 Click on the Annotation to open the dialog. Click on the pen to enable thedrawing tool and draw anarrow to any sentencethat interests you.

8 Click on the ‘X’ in the upper right-hand corner to exit AnnotationMode.

The annotation will disappear from view, but the AnnotationMode Toggle displays the number of existing annotations. Just enter Annotation Mode to see the annotations.

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Note: Annotations are only seen in Author mode. They are alsoassociated with the version, so if you

qplace an annotationqcreate a versionqdelete the annotationqrevert to the previous version

the annotation will come back with the reverted version.

Congratulations! You now know how to use annotations toremember an important point or to communicate with othermembers of your team.