Can an image file be annotated with DocViewer in Canvas Teacher?

[rcordeiro1]

I am new to Canvas teacher, and I struggle to annotate images on Chrome with my iPad and pencil, since the whole images moved when I write. I want to have the pleasant experience of DocViewer annotations with images like I do with PDFs on the Teacher app. Maybe I’m missing something, or maybe my students are uploading a weird image file? They are JPEG images. I’d hate to ask them to convert all their image submissions to me to PDFs. Is there a way to have a student submit an image in the student app or from a computer, and allow me to annotate that image on Teacher?

Thanks!

[klundstrum · Accepted solution]

Hi!

You're right. Currently, you are able to annotate on .jpg and .jpeg images in the browser, but not Canvas Teacher. I see you created https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/12285-annotate-image-files-in-teacher-app?sr=search&searchId=2...‌! Like I said in a comment there, I'm glad you submitted the idea.

[hauges]

Thanks for bringing this up. After encountering this problem, I found instructions (https://www.howtogeek.com/209951/the-best-ways-to-scan-a-document-using-your-phone-or-tablet/) that helped my students scan all image files from their phones into PDF documents following a pretty easy process. It also improves the quality of the images.