Enable the Notes Tool

Enable the Notes Tool#

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The notes tool allows learners to highlight and make notes about what they read in the body of the course.

Image of a course page that includes highlighted text and a note.

Note

The notes tool is available for text, including text in Text components. However, the tool is currently not available for discussions, exercises, video transcripts, or PDF documents.

Learners can access their notes either in the body of the course or on a Notes page. On the Notes page, a learner can see all the notes that she has made during the course. The page also contains links to the location of the notes in the course body.

The Notes page, listing the notes a learner has made in the course.

You must enable the Notes tool before learners can use it. To enable the Notes tool, follow these steps.

  1. In Studio, from the Content menu select Pages & Resources.

  2. Click the gear icon on the Notes card shown on this page.

  3. From the Configure notes modal, select the toggle to enable or disable the notes application.

  4. Select Apply to save your configuration changes.

See also

Recommender Tool (how-to)

Annotation Problem (how-to)

Calculator Tool (how-to)

Enable the Completion Tool (how-to)

Maintenance chart

Review Date

Working Group Reviewer

Release

Test situation