Can We Add Live Annotations without zipBoard Extension?
Yes. You can add live annotations in zipBoard without the zipBoard extension: open a file and click Review. Embedded annotations work out of the box for content such as PDFs, images, videos, and SCORM content, with the same tools as the extension.
You don't need the extension for PDFs, images, videos, MP3/audio or zipped SCORM/HTML files. To review live websites/URLs or courses hosted online, you still need the zipBoard browser extension.
How do I add live annotations without the extension?
Go to the file and click Review.
The following options are available in live annotations:
- Browse: Lets you go through your content.
- Review: Lets you use all annotation tools to add your feedback and suggestions:
- Select: Browse around and look through existing comments and annotations from your team. You can also move comments around and erase them.
- Comments: Click anywhere in your content to give a suggestion or add a task.
- Pencil: Draw freely and add your comment.
- Arrow: Point at an object and add a comment or review to it.
- Rectangle: Select a section of the screen and add your comment or task to it.
- Eraser: Delete an existing annotation.
- Stamp Options: Add a signature, check mark, or timestamp.
- Screenshot/Video recording: Take a screenshot of part of the webpage or capture it entirely in one go for review. Screen recording lets you record your screen, webcam, and mic to give clear, explanatory feedback.
- Reviewboard: Every time you add a review, zipBoard creates a screenshot for reference. From the review board, you can access all your screenshots for the project.
- Review summary: Shows the review history of your file. From here you can browse or review files from where they were added.
- Device mode: Shows how your web page or multimedia file looks at different resolutions on different devices.
Limitations: You cannot add live annotations to SCORM courses published in Articulate, Adapt, Elucidate, or Lectora.
Can I annotate content without using the extension?
Yes. With the embedded annotations update, you can review content such as PDFs, images, videos, and SCORM content without downloading and using the zipBoard extension.
This does not change your workflow or affect any other features. All annotation tools work without the extension, so you and your clients get the same task and content management, collaboration, and feedback collection features as with the extension.
There is nothing to install or set up separately; it works out of the box. Watch the quick video below to see how to review content using embedded annotations.