As you are reading a Miami UBook, you can take notes to emphasize important points. These notes can be used to provide context, add further content or links to further content, or clarify the topic. You can highlight a particular passage of text and add a note to it, or create a note that applies to the entire page.

You can create highlights or notes in four different colors, which you can use to categorize your notes. Tags are another tool for categorizing notes. You also can filter notes by the tags you add. For example, if your instructor adds a quiz tag to indicate that certain content may be on the quiz, you can filter the notes based on the quiz tag and focus your studying on that content.

In addition, you can:

• Choose to hide your notes from the instructor. If you hide your notes, your instructor can still see the text of notes that you post as questions.
• Choose to share notes with other classmates.

You can view notes on a passage while reading by clicking the highlight. You can view all notes by choosing View all notes from the page options menu to open the Notes Summary view. From the Notes Summary view, you can filter the list of notes to include those that:

• Exist on a particular page in the material
• Were written by you
• Have specific tags

You can print or export your notes, for example, to create a printed study guide. The filter you apply to the notes you are viewing also determines which notes you print or export.

Taking Notes on Text

Use these steps to add highlights and take notes on a passage in the text:

1. Go to the page in the materials where you want to take notes.
2. Click and drag your mouse to highlight the text on which you want to take notes. 
   To create only a highlight with no note, stop here. Highlights without notes appear on the text, but do not appear on the Notes Summary view. To add a note to the highlight, continue to the next step.
3. (Optional) Click the highlight.
   A window appears where you can choose to do any of the following:
   1. Change the color label.
   2. Type a note in the text field.
   3. Enter tags separated by commas to categorize the note. Students can filter your notes based on the tags.
4. Click the X in the upper right-hand corner to close the note window.

Taking Notes on a Page

Using page notes is the easiest way for you to transfer notes from your printed textbook because you do not have to navigate to each page individually in a Miami UBook. Page notes are also helpful to students using assistive technology.

Use these steps to take notes that apply to an entire page (as opposed to notes that are specific to a particular passage in the text).  Page notes do not appear in the reading context but only show on the Notes Summary view.

1. Open the material where you want to add a page note.
2. Click the page options button that appears in the top-right corner of the page.
3. Click View all notes.
   The Notes Summary view appears.
4. Click the +Add Note
   The Add Notewindow appears.
5. Type the page of the note in the Page NumberPage numbers in Engage match the printed textbook exactly.
6. Type your note in the Note
7. (Optional) Enter cited material from the textbook page. Doing so will include the cited material in the note, but will not highlight the text on the page. Leave the Add cited materialsection empty for notes that apply to the whole page.
8. (Optional) Enter tags separated by commas to categorize the note. Students can filter your notes based on the tags.
9. (Optional) Choose the color.
10. Click Add Note.

Printing or Exporting Notes