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Please be aware that Turnitin direct assignments will not be affected by this change. Turnitin is a separate assignment grading tool within Blackboard that can be used as an alternative for grading assignments submitted in Blackboard.

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Inline Grading Affected Features
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New Features
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Comments now indicated by the point tab(a) and appear in pop-up text box or at the end of highlighted text(b).   

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Highlighting and highlighting w/ comments still available(in single highlight color).  Document drawing and strikethrough are no longer supported at this time.

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Downloading annotated PDFs option is currently not supported in the new viewer. The download feature simply downloads the original text without markups.

Annotations made to documents in the previous viewer prior to January 12, 2018 will be saved and will be able to be downloaded.

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Supported file types for upload and conversion:

Many additional file types supported, including images, audio, video. Supported file types for upload and conversion in Assignments tool.

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Supported file types for annotation:

PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX(all annotation)

AI, BMP, DCM, EPS, GIF, PNG, PS, PSD, SVS, TGA, TIF, and TIFF(point annotation only)


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When will instructors see these changes?

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