Bookmarking and Flagging, and Taking and Downloading Notes
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Taking Notes in Class
Once in a classroom, you can take notes while viewing the presentation. The Notes panel appears to the right of the presentation pane, and should appear by default when you open the classroom.
If the Notes pane does not appear, click the Notes icon in the class toolbar. This is a toggle button which also closes the Notes panel when not needed.
All notes entered appear in the Study Guide tab for the course. Only you can see your notes, however Instructors do know which students are taking notes within the interface.
1. To take notes, click the Notes icon in the toolbar to open the Notes panel.
2. Click in the Notes panel and start typing. At the end of each note, press Enter. This allows for the entry and syncing of a new note.
3. Location information (time or slide number) appears in the tag to the left of the note. These tags can be edited (if you need to change the location your note is referencing) or deleted (if video/presentation location doesn't matter).
4. To edit presentation location tags, hover over the tag until the drop-down arrow (also called a "chevron") appears. Click the chevron and select Edit tag. Type in the change and press Enter. Use colons between the hour, minute, and second digits (h:mm:ss).
Alternately, you can select Delete tag from the chevron menu to remove the sync tag altogether. The note will remain.
You can also download your notes from the classroom or from the Study Guide tab. This generates a text file containing your class notes.
Downloading Notes
You can download your class notes, either from the classroom itself or from the Study Guide tab.
Note: Class questions/responses as well as classroom bookmarks are not included in the downloaded notes. Timestamp and slide number ARE included with each note that is synced to a location. For Windows users, open notes file in WordPad not Notepad. The notes text file that gets generated opens with proper formatting in WordPad but not in Notepad. Notepad doesn't recognize the line-breaks between notes.
1. To download notes from the Study Guide, navigate to the course.
2. Click the Study Guide tab.
3. Click Download as shown in the below figure.
4. A dialog box appears, asking you to select which set of notes you want to download. By default, the class whose notes you are currently viewing is selected.
5. Use the drop-down list to select a class, or select All Classes from the top of the list to obtain a consolidated list off all classes' notes.
6. Click DOWNLOAD. Your notes are downloaded as a text file. If you downloaded All Classes, each class' notes are prefaced with the date and title of the class.
7. To download notes within a classroom, enter the classroom either from the Dashboard or the Class List page. If necessary, click the Notes icon in the toolbar to open the Notes panel. Click Download from the Notes panel.
8. Your notes for this class are downloaded as a text file.
Flagging and Bookmarking Content
Flags allow you to identify presentation material that you find confusing or for which you want more explanation.
Bookmarks allow you to identify presentation material you want to return to later, to re-review or take notes on.
Setting Content/Location Bookmarks
Bookmarks let you mark locations in presentations or videos so you can find them quickly and easily, without having to page or scrub through the presentation/video.
1. To bookmark content, Click the Bookmark icon in the toolbar on the top.
2. If the classroom has both a video and a presentation, select whether you are bookmarking the scene or the slide.
Once your content is bookmarked, the Bookmark appears with your Notes. This allows you to click the bookmark and go to that location in the presentation/video (whichever you selected to bookmark).
Setting Flags for confusing content
Flags let you mark locations and material that you find confusing or items you feel the instructor may need to explain further to you or the class. Flagging content sends a notification to the instructor, letting them know that a student had some problem with the material. The notification flag includes the location of the presentation at the time it was flagged.
1. To flag content for clarification, click the Flag as confused icon in the classroom toolbar.
2. If the classroom contains both a video and a presentation, you will be asked to select whether the scene is confusing or the slide is confusing. If you want to flag both items of content, click the flag a second time to make a second confusion flag for the other content type.
