Recogito Studio – collaborative annotations

[David 0]

Hey,

I know this tool is more of a niche tool. But it can be extremely helpful in the field of (university) teaching: Recogito Studio allows multiple users to read a text or view an image and annotate (highlight and comment on) parts of it. These annotations can be commented on by other users, creating a shared reading experience which may be crucial for understanding articles or completing reading assignments.

I think it would be great if the tool were also available via Cloudron. Here is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/recogito/recogito-studio

[humptydumpty]

Their site doesn't show much of the app's features. I'm interested to see how well the image annotation works. This could be a functioning alternative to tldraw (multiplayer didn't work). Do you know if you can send a link and the guest is able to view/annotate?

[David 0]

Uh, you're right.

Here's more information: https://www.performantsoftware.com/software/
On the page where you can schedule a demo, there's a short videoclip: https://www.performantsoftware.com/pages/recogito/

One of the developers stated on mastodon that you could self host the software: https://higher-edu.social/@aboutgeo@vis.social/112712104233743061

aaand; I've scheduled such a software demo for this evening (next week on 12th of August) – I'll report back.

[David 0]

All right, these are my impressions of Recogito Studio after the software demo:

The software seems very mature. For users, there are:

• the possibility to reply to comments
• Comments can be private, read-only or only visible to certain groups
• You can create reading assignments and link them to documents
• Not only texts, but also images can be annotated
• annotations can be exported as CSV (PDF export is in the making)
• annotations can contain rich media (e.g. embedded youtube videos or images)

For admins:

• can define different roles (instructors, students)
• Login is possible via SAML
• The software is GDPR-compliant

in this short video, you can see how the software works:

I pointed the team to this very thread, maybe someone of the developers might join this discussion. Again, I'd be very glad if we had Recogito Studio available on Cloudron.