Google Docs and Annotate PRO

Annotate PRO (AP) helps you create deeper, more impactful feedback for your students while saving you thousands of clicks (and time). AP makes it easy to create and share reusable libraries of comments, so you can write great feedback once, then use it over and over again, only tweaking to personalize for a specific student.

In Google Docs, using AP is as easy as:

1. Highlighting text in the document, as you always would.
2. Clicking into the search box in the Annotate PRO toolbar or clicking a button in the sidebar, then watching a chunk of beautifully articulate feedback appear as a comment.
3. Personalize the text if required or have it inserted automatically with 1-click enabled.

See it in action:

You can also click in a Google Doc, choose a comment from your Libraries, and then paste it into the body of a Google Doc wherever your cursor is currently located.

Annotate PRO does not require ANY technical integration. You just install our Chrome Extension, create an account (using Google authentication if you’d like), and away you go…

AP is customizable: Set a keyboard shortcut to open it on ANY page, configure the toolbars, curate your personal libraries, share them with colleagues, review feedback you’ve created in the past, and use previously created comments to fuel the creation of new reusable comments.

AP’s Special Powers in Google Docs

Comment Histories

You can optionally save ALL your comments. By saving even comments entered directly into Google Docs you can easily extend your libraries of reusable comments based on actual feedback you provide.

Insert Formatted Text

Google Docs supports some rich formatting for document comments, which AP supports. However, users must learn ‘markdown’, enclosing text in asterisks, for instance, to create a bolded comment. For example, to create bold users must type **bold** into a Google comment box. Fortunately, AP has you covered. Comments authored in AP with bold, italics, bold AND italics, and embedded URLs will insert with rich formatting.

Once you install Annotate PRO for Google Chrome and refresh any open Google Docs pages, you’ll have trial access to the College Edition Library, a free Grammar Helper Library and a starter Library for you to easily modify and extend.