Add questions, moderated class discussion and watch tracking to the videos you already assign, in Canvas, Schoology or any LMS. Simple for teachers, safe for students, ready for district review.
Video is everywhere in school. Knowing it worked is not.
Turn the video you already assign into a lesson with a beginning, a check, a conversation and an exit ticket.
Students predict before they watch, so they watch with a reason.
A short question confirms the key idea landed. The video waits for an answer.
Students reply to each other on the exact moment, inside your class only.
One reflection prompt, and you know who is ready for tomorrow.
From tomorrow's homework video to district wide digital curriculum.
Short questions on the timeline keep attention active and show who needs help.
Learn more →Students ask and answer on the exact moment, inside a teacher supervised class space.
Learn more →See who watched, how far they got, and where they paused or rewatched.
Learn more →Pre class videos become real preparation, so class time goes to the hard parts.
Learn more →Use YouTube, your district library or a lesson you recorded yourself. Nothing needs to be uploaded again or edited.
Type your own questions, or let Lumo AI draft them from the video and edit what it suggests.
Scores sync to the gradebook, and you see who watched and where the class got stuck.
Student data is handled to FERPA standards, with no ads and no data resale. The player is built to WCAG 2.1 AA so every student can take part.
Connect through LTI 1.3 or run on any web page, with the video tools teachers already use.
An interactive video lesson is a video with questions, prompts or discussion placed at specific moments on the timeline. Students respond as they watch, so the video becomes an active task and the teacher sees every response.
Annoto shows each student's watch progress, where they paused or rewatched, and how they answered the questions on the video. You know before class who watched and who needs help.
Yes. Student data is handled to FERPA standards, with no ads and no resale of data. Discussion is limited to the class, and teachers can moderate, pin or close it on each video.
Yes. Annoto connects to Canvas, Schoology, Moodle, Brightspace and Blackboard through LTI 1.3 and can also run on any web page. Scores and completion can flow back to the LMS gradebook.
Yes. Annoto works on the videos you already use, including YouTube, Vimeo, Kaltura and your own recordings, without uploading them again or editing them.
Short questions on the timeline check understanding at the moment a concept is taught. The results show which ideas landed and which need reteaching while there is still time to act.
Yes. Annoto is installed once at the LMS level, so every teacher can use it in their courses, and administrators get usage and engagement reporting across schools.
The Annoto player and interface are built to WCAG 2.1 AA. Students can also take private notes and rewatch any moment at their own pace.
Video is everywhere in K-12 (flipped lessons, science demonstrations, recorded read-alouds, exam review), but for teachers it usually means losing sight of students the moment they press play. The questions parents and principals ask are the same everywhere: is it safe, is it supervised, and is anyone actually learning from it? Annoto brings viewing back into the classroom conversation, with the safety controls and teacher visibility that younger learners require.
Every discussion in Annoto lives inside the school's LMS, tied to real student identities: no public comment sections, no external accounts. Teachers moderate what appears, guide conversations with prompts placed at specific moments in the video, and keep the space classroom-appropriate by design. Comment threads stay visible to the teacher across every video in the course. Students learn to discuss ideas in context, which is digital citizenship practiced rather than preached.
Completion tracking shows which students actually watched the flipped lesson before class, and attention analytics show where they stopped. In-video quizzes and polls check understanding at the moment a concept lands, with results synced to the gradebook automatically. Reflection points prompt students to put ideas into their own words. Instead of asking "did you watch it?", teachers walk in knowing who needs help and with what.
Annoto deploys once through LTI 1.3 into Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace, or Open edX (or a lightweight API where there is no LMS) and works on top of the video sources schools rely on, including YouTube, Vimeo, and Kaltura. There is nothing for students to install and no new password to forget. It appears inside the lesson, in the player they already know. District IT keeps central control over settings, moderation, and data.
Institutions worldwide use Annoto to make video learning active and visible. For schools, the shift is simple: homework video stops being a guess about what happened at home and becomes a shared, supervised space where every student can ask, answer, and be seen, including the ones who never raise a hand in class.
The teachers who get the most from Annoto build a repeatable rhythm. Before assigning a video, they drop two or three prompts at the moments that matter: a prediction question before the demonstration, a check after the tricky step. Students watch at home and respond in the timeline; the next morning, the teacher opens class by pulling up the discussion and the quiz results rather than re-teaching from the start. Five minutes of scanning replaces a night of wondering, and class time goes to the exact spots where answers went wrong.
A recorded lesson can be paused, replayed, and slowed down, an advantage worth protecting for language learners and students who process at different speeds. Written comments give thinking time that live discussion never allows: a student can draft an answer, read what classmates wrote, and revise before posting. A teacher who sees a question appear at the exact moment of confusion can answer it that evening, before a small gap hardens into a failed unit. Notes with AI summaries turn a long lesson into study material students reread.
Screen time worries fade when watching stops being passive. When a guardian asks what their child is doing with all that video, a teacher can point to something concrete: questions asked at minute four, a quiz passed at minute nine, a reflection written in the student's own words. Activity is tied to the school account and stays inside the LMS, so nothing a child writes is exposed to a public platform. That is a different conversation than defending an hour of unsupervised YouTube.
A district rollout can begin with a single teacher. Pick one unit with existing videos, add three prompts per video, and run it for two weeks, enough to see whether discussion and completion change. The pattern that works then travels: department heads share the prompt sets that produced the best conversations, and the district enables the same setup across schools from one LTI configuration. Setup guides for teachers and district IT live at docs.annoto.net.
See a classroom safe demo on your own curriculum video.