Annotate PRO and Outlook (web version)
Annotate PRO (AP) makes it easy to create and share simple or complex libraries of reusable comments, then use those beautifully crafted chunks of text to quickly respond to students.
AP is optimized to work with the Outlook (web version), Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Word, helping teachers create rich feedback and improve engagement.
Annotate PRO and Outlook
Only AP+ and Institutional users can use Annotate PRO with Outlook.
Using AP with Outlook is only available to paid accounts – either individual or institutional. The powerful, basic version of AP is forever-free for use with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Word (online AND native apps for macOS and Windows). The forever free version of AP also works beautifully with other EDU solutions like Canvas, Schoology, D2L, Google Classroom and Blackboard.
AP sits alongside Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Word, Canvas LMS – almost any EDU app you might think of. The screenshot at right shows an email from a student asking for an explanation of “credible resources.”
AP shines in situations like this…
The AP sidebar provides fast access to potentially hundreds of snippets – focused on writing, student engagement & success – even mundane info around school resources and policies.
Simply click into the place where you want to put a snippet, then search/scroll through your AP content, find the one you want and BAM! A beautiful, articulate explanation or comment appears. Of course you can tweak to personalize.
What can you do with AP and Outlook? Oh boy!
- Use our amazing College Edition library to choose from hundreds of comments specific to academic writing.
- Create your own libraries of comments – for academic feedback, school resources, student/parent communication templates.
- Insert comments, with a couple of clicks, into emails in Outlook, chats in Microsoft Teams, comments in Microsoft Word, discussions in platforms like Canvas, D2L, Schoology – almost anywhere you can type on the web.
- Consider an institutional license so you can share libraries with your colleagues. For instance, a Writing Across the Curriculum library aligned with your curriculum and used by 5, 10, 50 or 500+ teachers.
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Click through the slideshow to see some of the nuances and power to AP. Or just install and get going!
Annotate PRO, an add-on for Google Chrome and Microsoft Word, allows me to streamline the [grading] process by creating an archive of comments that I can then drop right into student work or feedback sections. This enables me to easily add frequently used comments (such as the difference between summary and analysis, what constitutes common knowledge, and how to properly format a quotation) to student work regardless of the platform that I’m using…a huge timesaver that allows me to work through a stack of exams or papers (and even respond to emailed questions) surprisingly quickly and easily.