This article is for TEACHERS.


Highlights and notes help you track important textbook sections and enrich the content with your comments, links, and supplementary materials. 


As a teacher, you're also able to share your notes and highlights with your students, to indicate what they need to focus on, what to review for an upcoming test, or where they can find supplementary materials (e.g. another ebook, or a website or online video).


You can share notes and highlights with your students if you are the group owner and all students have access to the same ebook or resource. 

Once the teacher makes a highlight and/or note in the resource or ebook, all the students in the group will be able to see it in their reader apps.


While resources that are shared via Engage do need to be assigned to the group, you don't need to assign titles (i.e. ebooks) to the group in order for this functionality to work. If all the students in the group already have the same ebook as the teacher, they will be able to see the teacher's notes and highlights in their reader app.


To share notes and highlights with a group of students

  1. First, you'll need to set up groups by creating the group and adding users, including yourself. You must be the owner of the group.
  2. Check that all the students in your group own the relevant ebook and/or have access to the relevant resource. 
  3. Once you've ensured that all of the students in your group have the same ebook and/or resource , you can go ahead and add notes and highlights to the text, as you see fit.
  4. When the students in your group open their ebook or resource in their reader app, they will automatically be able to see all the annotations you've made for them by clicking the 'Journal' icon.


Students can access your shared annotations offline after syncing their device online at least once.


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