Learners comment, ask and reply at the exact second a concept appears. Every comment carries a time-tag, so questions stay in the context of the video instead of drifting into a separate forum.
Built with instructors and learning designers who wanted video to feel less like broadcast and more like a class.
Every comment carries a time-tag, and one click takes any reader to that second.
Instructor to learners, learner to instructor, or classmates answering first.
Place questions before a course opens and highlight strong replies from the dashboard.
LTI 1.3 across Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace and Open edX. No second forum.
Every comment and reply is anchored to a time-tag, so context is never lost and one click brings it back.
Replies, likes, @mentions and video answers turn watching alone into learning together.
Answer once, in context, and every learner who watches later meets the answer at the same second.
A tab for the discussion, a time-tag on every comment, and an interactive timeline that shows where the conversation clusters. Sort by newest, top comments or timestamp, and jump to any moment with one click.
Typing pauses the video, and the comment is stamped with the moment. Click a time-tag to jump straight there.
Tall bars mark moments with many comments or questions: a lively topic, or a place where learners are struggling.
Sort by newest, top comments (most liked and replied) or timestamp, and read replies inline under each comment.
Knowledge is built in dialogue. Explaining to a peer strengthens the explainer as much as the listener.
Low-stakes checks placed inside the material reveal understanding as it forms, not weeks later.
Feedback is most useful when the learner can still connect it to the reasoning that produced the question.
Pausing to judge what you understand, and committing to a position before seeing others', builds independent learners.
From the first time-tagged comment to moderation, video replies and notifications, the Comments Space is a complete discussion workflow inside the video your learners already watch.
Every comment and reply carries the moment it refers to. Typing pauses the video, and clicking a time-tag jumps the player straight there.
Reply below any comment, see reply counts inline, like with the red heart, and sort by Top Comments to surface what the class valued most.
When an instructor likes a learner's comment it earns a visible badge, telling the class which contributions are valuable and rewarding the author.
Learners choose per comment whether to post anonymously. Only moderators see the author, or nobody at all if you apply anonymity to moderators too.
Hold comments as pending until you publish, reply, reply privately, dismiss or delete them. Simple and Managed Q&A presets fit different courses.
Answer with a camera recording, a screen recording or an embedded YouTube link, with a maximum duration you set. Tone and gesture travel too.
@mention anyone in the course when People Space is on. Format with bold, italics, lists, highlight, blockquotes and emoji, and add a sentiment to any comment.
Follow one discussion or a whole course and get email on new comments, replies and mentions. Each person manages their own preferences in My Space.
Course-level preferences add more control. Mark any comment as a Reflection Point that learners must answer before continuing. Choose likes, sentiments or no voting at all. Require mandatory participation, so learners see others' comments only after posting their own. Close a discussion when the term ends, and the thread stays readable as a record of the course.
The same Comments Space supports very different teaching designs. These are the patterns instructors reach for most.
The instructor seeds the timeline before release: a question at a key moment, a translation of a difficult term, a pointer to what matters for the exam, a link to a further resource. Hundreds of learners meet the prompts as they watch, one instructor answer in context serves the whole cohort, and the timeline bars show where the class is struggling.
Learners watch before the session, answer the seeded questions in the comments, share what confused or intrigued them, and reply to peers. The instructor reads the discussion in the dashboard, knows in advance which topics need clarification, and plans class time around what was actually raised.
Learners introduce themselves in week one, in text or on video. On a film, a case or a recorded performance they share thoughts and even feelings, ask each other questions, and answer them. Anonymous posting invites the quiet ones, and the Educator's Thumbs Up tells the group which readings are worth following.
Questions about a training video are asked where they arise and answered by a subject-matter expert once, and the answer stays at that moment for every future hire. Managed comments keep the thread tidy, and the dashboard shows who watched, who asked and what is still unanswered.
Whatever the design, the phrasing of the first prompt sets the tone. Knowledge questions such as "what are the advantages and disadvantages of..." reveal understanding but tend to draw the confident learners. Feeling and reflection questions such as "how did this make you feel?" have no wrong answer and bring in everyone else. Questions that mention "so far" or "until this moment" keep viewers attentive through the end of the video.
No re-uploads and no new tool for learners. The Comments Space appears beside the player inside your LMS.
Enable Comments for a course or a single video in the dashboard preferences, and choose the options you want: likes or sentiments, anonymous posting, managed comments, video replies, notifications.
Drop a question, a hint or a resource at the moments that matter, ideally before the course starts so every learner meets it. Questions that invite varied answers draw far more replies than yes or no checks.
Reply, like, moderate and export from the Video Hub without opening the player. Unreviewed comments stay highlighted until you mark them read, one at a time or all at once.
Two habits keep the discussion healthy. Answer with the Reply button rather than a new comment, so every exchange keeps its context. And teach learners the art of replies: tell them when a reply was good, invite them to answer one another, and follow the course so a new question never waits longer than it should.
Discussion activity is measured and presented in the Annoto Analytics & Insights Dashboard next to watch behaviour, so participation is visible without reading every thread.
Read together, these views answer the questions that matter before the next session: who is present, where the cohort slowed down, which questions are still open, and whose contributions deserve to be brought into class.
Discussion only works if it lives where the course lives. Annoto adds the Comments Space to the video inside your LMS, keeps the data in your dashboard, and lets Lumo take the drafting work off your desk.
Annoto runs inside Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace and Open edX through LTI 1.3, on top of Kaltura, Panopto, Wistia, YouTube and Vimeo. Discussions are private per course by default: the same video used in two courses gets two separate discussions, and a shared discussion can be configured on request.
The dashboard's engagement metrics count comments and replies per learner, and Comments Review with the Educator's Thumbs Up lets you mark quality. Grade on quantity, on quality, or on the number of good comments, and use Annoto as extra credit or part of the course grade. Participation can also count toward completion and gradebook sync when you want it to.
Lumo can summarise a video, explain a concept in plain language and scaffold prompts across the levels of Bloom's taxonomy, from recall to analysis and creation. Review, edit and place the ones you want at the right moments before learners arrive. You stay in charge of what the class is asked.
“It makes students feel somehow accompanied while they are performing activities by themselves.”
Graded questions on the timeline, with scores synced to the gradebook.
Guided watching, flipped classroom, peer review and more, step by step.
Participation, watch behaviour and discussion insight per course, video and learner.
Every engagement, assessment and AI feature in one layer over your video.
Book a 20-minute demo and watch discussions and comments work inside your LMS, on your own content, with the dashboard open beside it.