{"id":7767,"date":"2019-07-09T22:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T05:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:22:13","slug":"class-annotation-of-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/class-annotation-of-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Class annotation of images"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is another post where I share how I did something, solely so I don’t forget how to do it.<\/p>\n

Perusall<\/a> is a wonderful program for annotating documents with a whole class, and I’m currently using it for all my online classes, which are located in the horror of an LMS they call Canvas. I upload a PDF, and students and I can highlight the document, with a panel popping up for discussion. When anyone clicks on the question mark, it indicates a request for responses. When anyone uses @Someone, it notifies them someone has responded. I have used it to solve the “what if they don’t do the reading?” problem, since we all kind of do the reading together.<\/p>\n

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All this is great. The system “auto-grades” (though I have to set it then check it very carefully), and pushes the grades to Canvas gradebook on my command, so I can focus on the discussion itself instead of evaluating it.<\/p>\n

But you can’t do this with images<\/em> — just upload and everyone talk about it.<\/p>\n

Except…you can. Perusall won’t upload images natively, nor link to images directly on the web. So I downloaded an image, and saved it as a pdf in Preview, then uploaded it. Then I clicked on a section of the picture. Instead of highlighting text, Perusall put a pin. I can then ask a question or make a comment about just that portion of the image. Click the pin, and the conversation panel opens.<\/p>\n

But the interface itself takes up a lot of the screen, which we don’t want for images. So I’m going to show students what to do about that:<\/p>\n

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If they do it, then it will look like this:<\/p>\n

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More room for the image, less clutter. I’m thinking it would be possible to put several images on a page to be discussed for that week.<\/p>\n

What it’s doing is similar to ThingLink<\/a>, which I learned about from our wonderful art historians over a decade ago. But ThingLink and similar programs, although they can be embedded into Canvas with iframes, cannot track a student’s comments, nor auto-grade them. Perusall can, which shortens my workflow so I can focus on the discussion, just as I do with annotated text.<\/p>\n

So, annotations for images when I teach a European history course that focuses on the Humanities, and a History of Technology class that can get bogged down in text? I’m in!<\/p>\n

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This is another post where I share how I did something, solely so I don’t forget how to do it. Perusall is a wonderful program for annotating documents with a whole class, and I’m currently using it for all my online classes, which are located in the horror of an LMS they call Canvas. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,33,37,38,10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-discussion","category-how-to","category-interactivity","category-online-teaching","category-educational-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}