iPad teacher app - grading PDF assignments

It seems that teachers can no longer annotate onto student assignments when they have been submitted as a PDF. This was available last year and made it possible to use a stylus to grade and leave feedback directly onto the PDF that the student submitted. It seems this feature is not available on the Teacher app anymore or am I missing something?

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carolyn_lyons

Hi @LACYMARTINEZ I'm sorry to hear that you running into issues adding annotations to your student assignment. No, there were no recent changes to the file types supported in DocViewer, and you should be able to add annotations on a pdf. Could the files possibly be too large or password protected? Files 100 MB and larger cannot be converted or annotated by DocViewer. For more information, please see this guide How do I add DocViewer annotations in the Teacher app on my iOS device?

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