NYU-UAG User Needs/Requirements: Social Reading/Text Annotation Immediate Needs ● Text-specific annotations (with ability to color-code or otherwise mark the author of the annotation) in following forms: ○ Text, including rich-text editor and to use mathematical notation (minimally, for underline, bold, italics; ideally, for embed of images, video, footnotes, etc.) ○ Link ○ Audio response/voiceover (both simultaneous narration and video stopped while comment plays) ○ Comment on annotations ● Collaborative Annotation/Social Reading ○ Ability to designate members who can see/post/share annotations ○ Ability to create private sub-groups ○ Ability for all sub-group members to post annotations (with annotations that can be set either to be visible only to sub-group members or beyond the sub-group) ○ Ability for a group member to post queries (annotations that ask for additional information/response from the group), with optional notification to other group members ○ Ability to thread responses and to easily open all responses in a thread at once ○ Ability for instructor to save annotations for future use (with student permission; option to anonymize) ○ Option to anonymize comments to students but reveal author to instructor ● Markers to show where annotations are placed ● Optional time-stamps on annotations ● Option to set deadline for submission of comments; ability to grade comments and send grade to gradebook; ability, when appropriate, to machine-grade annotations ● Annotation overlay on major document formats (pdf, google docs, Word) and on web pages; save text on which comment was made along with comment so saved passage and comment remain if web page changes ● Web-delivered tool rather than desktop client ● Population of annotation group by roster pull (from SIS or Classes) ● Ability to copy a text (eg, a JSTOR pdf) from one course site (eg, in Classes) to another without annotations being copied (eg from one semester’s class to another’s) ● Ability to annotate in different languages ● Accessibility - screen-reader for text comments (with voice activation of numbered comments) ● Means to see all annotations within a text aggregated (not having to scroll through text); ability to see all comments by a particular annotator aggregated together ● Ability to post multiple comments on the same word, phrase, or sentence without visual clutter ● Ability to post general comments (eg a prompt) that sit outside but are associated with the text Eventual Needs ● Ability (for, eg, instructor) to moderate comments in an annotation group ● Integration with LMS (eg, ability to grade aggregated annotations by each student and feed to gradebook) ● Export to standard document formats or as plain text (for use in print essays) ● Analytics - ability to see common stats on use (# comments by user, length of annotations, timestamps at which they were added, etc.) ● Ability to tag annotations (taxonomy/folksonomy) ● Ability to pull bibliographical information into annotation ● Additional annotation format: Highlight/Heat-map for images within a text document ● Email notification options - eg, for author of work on which comment placed, for comment on an annotation, etc. ● Embed of annotated text segments in standard document types (Google, Word, Pages, WP, Classes etc.) ● Ability to assign a task to a group member through an annotation Nice to Have ● Roles/permissions that allow editing of another user’s annotations (as in, eg, WP or Google); permissions assignable by faculty member ● Ability for user to save annotation content as asset for future re-use ● Ability to attach/retrieve documents to an annotation ● Ability to pull excerpts from longer texts to annotate (don’t need to be able to do within the annotation platform; can happen in the document platform) ● Messaging to annotation author through the annotation ● Generate tag cloud from tags (see above under eventual needs) .