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Q: Marking up PDF

just installed iTunes U 3.0 And doing initial testing. created a test post with PDF.  On my ipad, enrolled as a "dummy" student,  I can view the PDF but can't mark it up and I certainly can't send it back to the instructor.  has anyone figured out how to mark up the PDF yet within iTunes U? 

Posted on Jun 26, 2015 9:50 PM

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  • by miggyytosh,Helpful

    miggyytosh miggyytosh Jun 27, 2015 9:00 AM in response to luckfromvancouver
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    Jun 27, 2015 9:00 AM in response to luckfromvancouver

    Make sure the iPad you are testing this on an iPad that supports PDF annotation - Annotate PDF assignments in iTunes U - Apple Support

  • by luckfromvancouver,

    luckfromvancouver luckfromvancouver Jun 27, 2015 2:30 PM in response to miggyytosh
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    Jun 27, 2015 2:30 PM in response to miggyytosh

    Thank you ;-)

  • by eastmac,

    eastmac eastmac Jun 28, 2015 2:19 PM in response to miggyytosh
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    Jun 28, 2015 2:19 PM in response to miggyytosh

    Here on a iPad Air i can not annotate any PDF.  ;(

  • by Colorsthink,

    Colorsthink Colorsthink Jul 2, 2015 10:44 AM in response to miggyytosh
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    Jul 2, 2015 10:44 AM in response to miggyytosh

    Hi same problem here.

     

    I read the article's support, it tells about:

    "iPad (3rd generation or later) or an iPad mini 2 or later, the PDF can be annotated and turned in all within iTunes U. But on older devices, the student must send the PDF from iTunes U to a PDF editor. The student can annotate the PDF in the separate app, then return the PDF back to iTunes U on the device and turn it in."

     

     

    Well, this doesn't work.

    I have an iPad 4rd generation and iTunesU 3.0 and there is no way to mark it inside the app.

    Plus, if you open the pdf with another app (say Acrobat) and after return the document to iTunes U, as support's article suggested, this is the message you get:

     

    "To share a document with iTunesU, you must be an iTunes U instructor"

     

    But I'm a student!! So?

     

    So, I think this new version is full of bugs.

     

    Apple please fix it.

  • by eastmac,

    eastmac eastmac Jul 2, 2015 12:27 PM in response to Colorsthink
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    Jul 2, 2015 12:27 PM in response to Colorsthink

    Find the way.

     

    You have to create a course and inside this course you have to set a outline and this outline can have some assignment.

    This assignment can contain a pdf wich you can annotate.

     

    Still be confuse with some GUI elects but hey, its free and it works.

     

    The iTunes U Course need a electronic way to read out the "hand-in" pdf.

    If you have 40-100 hand-in and you have all to check by hand.  ;(

     

    Andreas

  • by Colorsthink,

    Colorsthink Colorsthink Jul 2, 2015 3:19 PM in response to eastmac
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    Jul 2, 2015 3:19 PM in response to eastmac

    Ok, I played around for a while and I think I have the solution now! I hope...at least for me know works perfectly.

     

    After (a lot) of tests I believe the issue is not in iTunes U, the course, the pdf or other... the only issue is about IOS version!

     

    I made tests on my iPad 4 gen. but a lot of function were buggy. My iPad had iOS 8.2 and last version iTunes U (3.0)

     

    Here what I did:

     

    1) I've uninstalled iTunes U

    2) I've upgraded iOS to iOS 8.4

    3) I've reinstalled iTunes U app

     

     

    Now ALL works very well!!! "Hand-in" homework is fantastic and works great, and now also "Private messages" (inside assignment) works! Also "grade" works perfectly.

     

    The only thing still doesn't work is notifications about new messages (you need to check inside the course and inside discussion message (for general messages) or inside the assignment (for private messages), and this is very very annoying.... I hope Apple guys will fix that.

  • by nathaliebalduck,

    nathaliebalduck nathaliebalduck Jul 31, 2015 11:19 PM in response to Colorsthink
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    Jul 31, 2015 11:19 PM in response to Colorsthink

    Hello

     

    I'm glad it worked for you.

    It still isn't working on my courses though.

    For other courses on my iPad the anotation works, but not for the PDF's I upload. I tried uploading different kinds of pdf's, ones made by me and others. None of them show the anotation possibilities.

    It can't be the PDF's because I uploaded the PDF that works in another course to my course and it won't work.

     

    If anyone has another solution ...

  • by nathaliebalduck,

    nathaliebalduck nathaliebalduck Aug 4, 2015 5:43 AM in response to nathaliebalduck
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    Aug 4, 2015 5:43 AM in response to nathaliebalduck

    This is crazy: so on the SAME iPad I use a newly made apple ID and the annotation works.

    I use my own (old) apple ID and the annotation isn't there.IMG_0091.PNGIMG_0090.PNG

  • by patixa,

    patixa patixa Aug 10, 2015 5:11 PM in response to nathaliebalduck
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    Aug 10, 2015 5:11 PM in response to nathaliebalduck

    Teachers and contributors in a course can't annotate PDFs that are attached as materials to assignments. Teachers and contributors can annotate PDFs sent by students to teachers in the private journal / discussion.

     

    Does that help?

  • by mbla2645,

    mbla2645 mbla2645 Oct 23, 2015 11:19 AM in response to patixa
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    Oct 23, 2015 11:19 AM in response to patixa

    So---If a students submits an assignment via ituneu, can I mark it up and make comments on it without leaving itunesu?

  • by patixa,

    patixa patixa Oct 23, 2015 4:39 PM in response to mbla2645
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    Oct 23, 2015 4:39 PM in response to mbla2645

    Yes.