OrbitNote is an online document annotation and markup tool for PDFs and other document formats.
Content Agnostic
3-12
PD Supported
Vetted & Paid
6-12
UDL & Accessibility
With OrbitNote students can highlight, underline, and strikethrough text in PDF and other document formats. Students can also add text boxes, shapes, and images. OrbitNote works with Google Drive and Canvas.
OrbitNote can be used in all content areas as a way to have students interact with digital texts, show what they know and might help to build the following digital learning competencies, as described in BSD's Technology Scope & Sequence. Students can also use the text to speech feature to have PDFs read to them.
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Teachers can use this tool to create content for students. This tool is a part of a suite of tools that can be used to help in Universal Design, informational Design, as well as thinking about accessibility for all students.
OrbitNote with Canvas LTI
Orbitnote allows students to interact with a document with annotations, drawings, text boxes and much more. This session with go over the variety of ways teachers can use OrbitNote to create Canvas assignments for students in grades 6-12.
Read&Write with OrbitNote
Learn about the OrbitNote extension and how you can use the PDF reader and the screenshot reader.
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