Draw on Screen (non-notebook)

Sometimes, you just want to draw on a non-interactive application, For example, maybe you are working with students on searching the internet. You are using an Internet browser (like Chrome or Firefox), and you want to highlight items or take notes on a particular page. Here's what to do:

  1. Position the page so that the material you want to work with is visible. This is important because you are basically going to take a picture of this page, which means you cannot scroll once you start writing.

  2. On the left and right side of the screen, there is a small arrow to bring up you menu options. Click this arrow.

    1. The menu strip (pictured at far-right) has many choices. You will want to click on the one that looks like a pencil. This will do 2 things -

      1. 1) take a snapshot of the screen that you can draw on (which you likely won't even realize is there)

      2. 2) bring up a small toolbar shown here.

    1. Clicking on the red pencil will allow you to draw in red. Clicking on the pencil multiple times will change the pencil's color.

    2. Clicking on the highlighter will allow you to write with a semi-transparent highlighter. The highlighter's color can be changed by tapping on it multiple times.

    3. When you are done with your work, you can click the green "disk" icon to save the current screen and your annotations, OR you can click the "X" icon to discard your writings, and return you to the application that was originally on the screen. (In our example, that would return you to Chrome.)

    4. NOTE: When you are writing on a screen, it is static. That is, you cannot scroll, click links, etc. All you can do is make notations on the image. You must save or discard your screen capture to return to operating your application.