Collaborative Annotation of Digital Text with Edji

Edji: Edji is a free online tool that allows your students to independently or collaboratively annotate text or images. It's a great way to improve literacy, comprehension and digital reading engagement. Check out some highlights of this tool below.

Marking the Text: Students can independently or collaboratively annotate digital text, PDFs and images.

Differentiation: Students can add notes with emojis, text or audio.

Collaboration & Teacher Features: Teacher can turn on/off the collaboration feature. This means that students can mark text individually, and then the teacher can turn on the ability for students to see other comments and reply to them (This feature is called "Vision.").

Collaboration & Dialogue: Students can reply to other comments with emojis, text or audio.

Collaboration & Analysis: Turn on the "heatmap" to see which parts of the article were highlighted most often. The darker the color, the more frequently students have marked this section.

Easy Set-Up: Quickly upload a PDF, insert text or attach a picture. You can also embed questions for students to answer.

Easy Student Access:

• No student log-in is required. 
• Teachers may provide a direct link to an article or a article code for students to enter. 
• Students enter their name (or a nickname) to identify themselves.

Note: Teachers can have 3 active Edji documents for free at any given time. If they need more, they can deactivate an earlier one to create a new activity. Deactivated content is not lost, but editing is disabled.