What is Kami?

Kami is an annotation tool for secondary staff and students to use on their laptop/chromebook. It will allow you to highlight, markup, define words, text to speech and more! On top of that, it integrates with Schoology, our LMS for all secondary students.

① Getting Started with Kami

Get Kami Extensions

In this video, we'll go over how to install the Kami extension and get started with your Kami account. It'll also introduce you to Screen Capture & Split and Merge extensions. These extensions will be made available for all students in grades 6-12.

Chrome Extensions by Kami

Kami Extension

The Kami extension allows you to annotate over PDFs and other online documents through Google Drive & Schoology.

Screen Capture

Screen Capture by Kami allows you to record your windows and screens as comments in Kami

Split & Merge

Combine documents in seconds! Use Kami Split and Merge Tool to reorganize, split, merge, pages and files in an instant!

② Schoology Integration from Teacher/Student Perspective

The Schoology-Kami Integration Workflow

The teacher assigns the Document via the Assign from Kami option in the Schoology Assignment tool.
The student selects Open in Kami to add annotations, shapes, comments, etc. They will they select Turn In to send it back to the teacher in Schoology.
The teacher then gives feedback inside Kami and will provide the student a grade via Schoology or PowerSchool.

Helpful Tutorial Videos on Schoology Integration

Creating a Kami Assignment inside Schoology

Opening & Submitting Kami Assignments (Student View)

Grading in Schoology

Leveling Up Kami Assignments in Schoology

① Go to kamiapp.com and sign in with your Google Account.

② Choose a PDF from Your Computer or Google Account

③ Add Comments, Videos, Interactive Images to Drag, etc. to the document.

④ Select Save (You can change the Folder if you wish)

⑤ Create an Assignment in Schoology and then add the newly created Kami document to the assignment.

⑥ Fill Out Info and select Assign!

③ Exploring the Tools

Basic Annotation Tools

Using the Text Box

Using the Drawing Tool

Adding Lines & Arrows

The Shapes Tool

Equation Editor

Using the Eraser Tool

Highlight Tool

Underlining Tool

Strikethrough Tool

Navigation Tools

Moving the Toolbar

Advanced Export

Rotating the Page

Using Keyboard Shortcuts

Accessibility Tools

Dictionary Tool

Text to Speech Tool

Speech to Text Tool

Using Dark Mode

Using The OCR Tool You Can...

  • Take Pictures/Scanned Documents and make them interactive for students

  • Provide accommodations for students with the Dictionary tool and Text to Speech

  • Select, Annotate, and Copy text from Scanned Document

Using Split & Merge You Can...

  • Split Large PDF’s to manageable documents to send out

  • Merge multiple PDF’s to one larger PDF

  • Remove unwanted PDF’s like Answer Keys or Other Not-Needed Languages

  • Open right in Kami or Save to Drive

Comment Tools

Text Comments

Voice Comments

Video Comments

Screen Capture

④ Subject Integration Ideas

📐 Math

🔭 Science

📚 ELA

🌍 Social Studies