

If students have already added Kami as a Chrome Extension, then they will be asked if they want to open the PDF you’ve shared with Kami.

When creating your assignment, select the option to “Make a copy for each student.” A teacher can find a PDF they want students to actively read and share that PDF via Google Classroom. The best part of Kami is how seamlessly it works with Google Classroom.

I’d encourage you to remind your students to do this. I immediately paused the class and Derek shared this awesome Google Chrome Extension! Kami makes annotating PDFs super simple.Įven though Kami saves annotations every minute, some students immediately close their Chromebooks when they are finished reading and annotating, so it’s possible they might lose the last couple of notes they made if they don’t click the “save now” button. My student, Derek, said, “Hey, Tucker, have you ever used Kami?” I said that I had not heard of it. Then one of those magical moments happened in class when a student becomes the expert and shares a tool I’ve never heard of. When my students asked me how I wanted them to annotate the text, I said they could make annotative notes in digital notebooks since I wasn’t aware of a free tool that would allow them to easily annotate a PDF. I shared the PDF version because our library only had a few copies of the book. Last week, my students began reading excerpts from The Sixth Extinction to complement our Environmental Unit.
