What's new?

You can learn all about the new and improved Managed Comments feature in this link.

November 2023

Interactions Analytics

The new added Interactions Analytics in the Annoto Dashboard provides valuable insights into the engagement and learning progress within your courses and videos by tracking the number of interactions added to each.

Now, you can easily see how many quiz questions have been added to every course and video, providing you with a comprehensive overview of user engagement and the depth of learning experiences.

Where can I see it? In multiple places:

In the Hub:

On the right side you will see the Interactions icon along with the number of quiz questions that were created. You can even sort the Hub by the number of Interactions:

Under Insights - Overview:

In the Insights overview, you can see the number of total interactions in all of the course videos (If in the Admin dashboard – the Insights overview presents the number of total interactions in all courses)

Under Insights - Videos:

In the Insights Videos table, the interactions column presents the number of Interactions per video:

Key Benefits:

Performance Tracking: Monitor the effectiveness of your quizzes by tracking the number of interactions added over time.

Content Engagement: Understand which courses and videos are drawing the most attention and interaction from your users.

Adaptability: Use insights from Interactions Analytics to adapt your content and quizzes for better engagement and learning outcomes.

October 2023

Managed Comments

We have enhanced the ability to manage the discussion in any way that suits you, whether it's Managed QA or moderating the comments within a discussion.

With the new capability, you now have the power to curate questions, answers, and comments.

Approve and respond, whether it's for everyone to see or through private messaging, putting you in the driver's seat of the conversation!

Setting your preferred way of managing the discussion is done via the Annoto Preferences:

June 2023

Import data – from one course to many

Following our import course data feature, we have introduced a new enhancement.

You can now import data from one course to many, saving you time and effort when duplicating courses within your organization.

This feature allows for quick importing of course preferences and interactions across multiple courses.

Create a CSV file that includes the following fields: Course name, Course ID, URL.
Send the prepared CSV file to our support team at: contact@annoto.net
Our team will handle the duplication process based on the provided CSV file.

You can read more about the process in this link.

May 2023

Limit Fast-Forwarding in the video

Instructors can prevent learners from fast forwarding the video. This feature will ensure the video is watched without skipping.

You can find this option within the Preferences in the Annoto Dashboard.

You can easily choose what to limit, by clicking on “Options”:

You can toggle what you want to restrict:

Mandatory quizzes – Restrict fast forwarding the video until all mandatory quizzes are answered (Turned on in the above image)
Optional quizzes – Restrict fast forwarding the video until all the quizzes are answered (Turned off in the above image)
Activity - Restrict fast forwarding the whole video (Turned off in the above image)

Saving time by importing course data

You can now import your Preferences, Comments, and Interactions from one course to the other.

This is easily done within the dashboard of the course you want to import to, as you can see in this short video, or in the following instructions:

Go to the course Hub:

Click on the 3-dots menu on the right side:

Choose “Import data from another course”:

Choose the course you want to import from (you can search by title):

Choose what you want to import (by toggling) – Preferences/ Comments/ Interactions and click on the green Import button:

This is it! Everything you chose will be imported.

April 2023

Single Interaction Publish

When creating Annoto Interactions, the interactions need to be published in order to be seen by the users. In the new release, we added the option to publish a single interaction (as opposed to all of them at once): Simply click on the 3 dots menu of the interaction you want to publish:

And click: "publish"

This allows moderators to create multiple interactions and easily publish them one by one. Can be used during the live meetings, webcasts as well as asynchronously.

Interactions support for live use cases

Annoto interactions can now easily be supported within live use-cases, starting with enabling moderators only to view the discussion, along with UX/UI improvements and up to Single Interaction Publish capabilities.

In some use-cases, only moderators would want to see the Annoto widget - to set the interactions, or to choose the exact time to hide the widget for the users.

From now on, moderators can control who will see the Annoto widget (and when). This is set in the Annoto dashboard Preferences, within the User Experience tab, under Access Control:

Moderators can choose whether only moderators will view the widget:

Or if users will also see the widget:

By default, users can see the Annoto widget.

March 2023

Annoto has the ability to add in-widget messages to users, called User Hints/ User hints are short announcements to the users (they are not a part of the discussion, but a layer above it).

Here is an example of a user hint about the Comments Space:

In the new release, we added the option to add a user hint that will be visible only to not-logged-in users, so managers can create a call-to-action specifically for them.

To publish a user hint (for logged-in or not-logged-in users) - contact your Annoto CSM.

January 2023

Accessing the Annoto Dashboard from the video

The new feature, based on your requests, provides instructors a quicker way to get insights and manage their specific videos directly from the video view:

Clicking on the menu button will present all options, including dashboard access:

Clicking on the dashboard takes you to view the video preferences:

From this view you can:

Preferences Tab - Choose which features and user experience you prefer for that video.
Assessments Tab - Check learners' progress and results.
Insights Tab - Discover insights about users and about this video in particular.

The Annoto Insights Dashboard will also be accessible via clicking on the course name in the navigation bar.

November 2022

The new Annoto Dashboard is here!

Hi,

We are excited to share the release of the new Annoto Dashboard!

As we added more and more new features and capabilities in the last couple of months, such as the Annoto preferences and the new exciting assessment layer to Annoto to build it as the ultimate Swiss army knife for educational video content, we understand it's time to upgrade the Annoto dashboard to enable a quick way to manage all of these great capabilities, get quick actionable insights and make it easier to find exactly what you are looking for! 😊

The new Annoto dashboard structure enables to separate between the different activities:

At the course level:

The Hub - enables quick management of the video activities.

Insights - provides overall analytics and insights about the video content and the users

Preferences - The place to set features and UX for the course or specific videos

In addition we added a lot of new capabilities like:

· The ability to search for videos!

· New analytics about video consumption effectiveness!

You can learn all about it here.

· Assessment (new)

Enable to manage and get insights on the assessment activities (Grades, Quizzes results, etc.)

Interactive walkthrough in the dashboard, just to make sure everyone can have a quick start with the new functionality and with the new insights it provides and the features it includes:

You can take the tour anytime you like:

You can learn all about the new dashboard in the Annoto Online Docs.

October 2022

Kaltura bug with YouTube video and out of sync time stamp (Fixed) - October 2022

The Issue:

When using a YouTube video with Kaltura player (V2), the player stops reporting the video timestamp, when clicking on the screen to play the video. The pause of the video timestamp reported by the player stops working, effecting different features of Annoto and Kaltura (as the time stamp is not progressing, even as the video continues to play).

You can see the issue in this short video

As mentioned, Kaltura fixed this bug on the new player version 2.98

To resolve the issue and make sure you are not affected you need to go to KMC and update the player version (I understand it takes a bit of time to update ±15min)

September 2022