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Annotate Comments not Appearing for Submitted Assignments

Comment annotations downloaded and re-uploaded become flattened as yellow rectangle annotations

Description

When an annotated PDF containing comment annotations is downloaded and then re-uploaded as an assignment submission, the comment annotations are displayed as yellow rectangular highlights in the instructor preview.

Steps to Replicate

  1. Log into Blackboard Learn as an instructor

  2. Navigate into a course and create an assignment

  3. Log in as a student navigating to the assignment in the course and submit an attempt uploading a PDF

  4. Log in as the instructor and open the submitted student attempt

  5. Add one or more comment annotations then download the annotated PDF

  6. Create a second assignment

  7. Log in as the student navigating to the second assignment to submit an attempt uploading the annotated PDF

  8. Log in as the instructor and open the student submission for the second assignment

Observed Behavior:

The annotations become flattened as yellow rectangle annotations.

Expected Behavior:

The annotations in the PDF display as they do in the source file.

Affected Versions

  • Learn 4000.17.0

  • Learn 4000.19.0

Target Release

Future Reference

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