Annotation tool struggles

Nancy Kierstead
Nancy Kierstead
Tenth Anniversary Kudos 3 Name Dropper Participant
in Blackbaud Learning Management System™
I believe there was an update that forced the Annotation tool for teachers to only open in Full Screen mode, and took away the annotation view that was available on the same page as the student assignment grading screen. Our teachers aren't thrilled. "This adds a step for each assignment as I have to click out of the redirected window to input the grade/comment." Are other school's struggling with this as well? Any chance we can get back the functionality we had before?

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  • Crystal Bruce
    Crystal Bruce admin
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 5 December 2025 Monthly Challenge First Reply

    @Nancy Kierstead Hi Nancy! Thank you for posting. With any functionality request, I always recommend members post it to the ideas bank: Blackbaud K-12 Education Solutions™ Ideas - Blackbaud Community. It will require a unique login/password (not Blackbaud ID) to post, but if it is a functionality that others would like to vote on, they can and the product team will see the votes. Thanks!

  • Nancy Kierstead
    Nancy Kierstead
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 3 Name Dropper Participant

    @Crystal Bruce Hi! I'm happy to create an idea, but this is something that, according to the video linked in the help documentation, should still be in place. @Michael Morrissette Should we still be able to open documents in annotation view (as opposed to full screen) or should I call support?

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  • Michael Morrissette
    Michael Morrissette Blackbaud Employee
    Ninth Anniversary Kudos 5 Name Dropper Participant

    Hi @Nancy Kierstead -

    We're taking a look into this. Originally, we swapped the modal from the PSPDFKit version to one of our own to address some issues users were having while working on iPads. I believe we originally had the workflow largely the same, with the exception of the new tool bar.

    More to come on this one.

    -Mike

  • Jennifer Snyder
    Jennifer Snyder
    Fifth Anniversary Facilitator 1

    I like the annotation feature and would use it more if annotations saved the color pen, thickness size, font size I select for the first student and carries it forward for each student document I open in the same assignment. This would probably save 10 minutes per class. Also, the "stamps" seem to have come from a real estate lawyer. They have no relevance to teacher feedback on assignments. It would also be useful to be able to save our most common phrases as our own stamps that stayed with our own teacher account.

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