Annotating Images with speedgrade in Quiz vs Assignment

[JosephWilda]

All of this is specifically for the Canvas Teacher App on IOS.

I can't annotate images, specifically jpeg, that are directly uploaded into a quiz using the "File Upload Question" type through SpeedGrader. Currently, I can annotate PDF's directly in the quiz, but not images. This is a huge deficiency, particularly considering it is possible to directly annotate student-uploaded images using an assignment, submission type File Uploads. 

I have some ideas on how to deal with this for the time being, but all are less than ideal.

1. Convert the quiz to an assignment. I gain the ability to annotate the work, but I lose the quiz questions' autograde function, and the ability to assign points per question.
2. Leave the quiz as a quiz but make a separate assignment specifically for students to upload their work. I now have two places to check: the quiz for their answers and the separate assignment for their work.  This will double the number of assignments in a semester, not to mention increase the chance a student forgets to upload work. But I can annotate the images and PDFs of their work.
3. Download the files, import them into a separate app to draw the annotations, and then re-upload them as comments.

Is there a better way to do this?

[ColtonSwapp]

Hello @JosephWilda 

Thanks for posting this in the Canvas community! 

This seems like it might be a limitation of the doc viewer that is used to add your annotations on the Teacher app. Not sure why the difference in the file that is used would limit your ability to add annotations on the mobile app. 

I think that the best work around for this would be:

1. Download the jpeg specific images that were uploaded by the student to the file upload question. 
2. Add you annotations to the image outside of Canvas.
3. Add/upload the annotated image it as a comment.  

-Colton