Creating & Annotating Images

Google Drawings- usable by all students

Google Drawings is an application available within our GSuite for Edu domain. You can find it in your Google Drive by clicking on the "new" button and hover over "more." Create drawings and diagrams that can be collaborated on in real time as well as inserting an image that can be edited and annotated.

Google Slides- usable by all students

Google Slides is an application available within our GSuite for Edu domain. You can find it in your Google Drive by clicking on the "new" button. Although Slides is traditionally thought of for creating presentations, it can also be used to create a drawing or import an image that can be edited and annotated using the drawing tools. Slides can be saved as an image when finished by going to File>Download>.jpg or .png

Canvas- usable by all students

Google has a new drawing tool called Canvas. Access it at canvas.apps.chrome to begin your first sketch and save it to your Drive when using a tablet or Chromebook. You can also upload an image and layer a drawing on top of it. This is also accessible on tablets by typing in the url canvas.apps.chrome to a browser app.

Note: If you use this app on a laptop or desktop the image will be exported and saved to the computer.

Google Keep- usable by all students

Google Keep users can annotate images on their mobile phones and or in the browser-based version of Google Keep. In the browser-based version of Google Keep you have to import images. In the mobile version of Google Keep you can import from your camera roll or take a new picture with your camera. Watch Richard Byrne's video to see how you can annotate images in the browser-based version of Google Keep.

Nimbus Screenshot and Screen Video Recorder- usable by all students

Nimbus is an extension that allows you to capture all or part of your screen to create images that can then be edited and annotated. Nimbus creations can be saved to your device or your Google Drive on a Chromebook. This extension is on the student whitelist for them to install.

Students do not need to and should not make accounts to save to Nimbus. Saving to their Chromebook does not require an account.

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