App Update: Adobe Acrobat DC- PDF Reader

Adobe Reader is now called Adobe Acrobat DC. The app update came out on April 6, 2015, so some of our students have gotten this updated version. If you use this, you'll want to note the change in case  any of your students have this version.

Our district supports this app for students to be able to annotate PDFs. Many times a teacher will share a text or other PDF through email, Edmodo, etc. It doesn't work perfectly and there are several features you have to pay for in order to use, but it does allow students to "write" on a PDF and then share their work with their teacher. 

At the top left you can access the menu. (You'll probably start with the Home icon in that place, or if you've opened a PDF you'll start in the Viewer.)  Comment and Viewer are pretty much the only options on the menu that don't require a pro subscription.

Tapping Comment will bring up the tools to annotate, such as drawing/writing with the pencil and adding text. I will say I unfortunately did not get the highlighting, underlining, or strikeout tools to work, but underlining with the pencil accomplished the same idea.  Tap a tool a second time to deselect it. That's when you are able to scroll up and down in the PDF again. Again, not perfect, but you can annotate. 

Tap Viewer in the menu and tap the up arrow/send and share icon in order to share the finished, annotated PDF. This is where the option appears to open in another app (such as Edmodo to turn in as an assignment) or to email.