The Next Generation of Documents is Here.

We’ve introduced a brand new document editing toolkit, modernising the classroom essentials you already know, love, and rely on to engage learners every day.

Rebuilt from the ground up, this update gives educators and students greater flexibility, precision, and reliability without losing the simple, intuitive experience you expect from Showbie.

From marking up worksheets and notes to uploaded slides and texts, new and improved annotation tools bring all your classroom documents to life with more dynamic feedback and deeper teacher-student engagement.

Here’s what’s new:

• More Annotation Precision: Customisable ink stroke and text sizes, new line styles, dynamic shape tools, arrows and polylines, and a full colour picker with custom hex codes.
• Greater Multimedia Flexibility: Upload or drop images directly onto documents, record voice notes, screen-record on iOS, and insert tappable web links.
• Automatic Saving: Document edits now save in real-time, ensuring work syncs instantly—no more "Done" button and no lost progress.
• Enhanced Feedback: You can now thread comments within a document to build clear, chronological and transparent dialogue of feedback and engagement with students.
• Streamlined Marking Workflow: An improved floating Quick Marking widget for effortless student toggling, grouped annotations, and a new built-in annotation history.

All new documents created are automatically powered by our new document editor toolkit.

Reusing legacy documents from prep libraries or archives?
Any legacy documents you need to reuse this term, or for the new school year, can easily be converted to the new toolkit. Simply copy the Class, Folder, Assignment, or an individual Post to your current class to ensure proven and prepped materials can benefit from more precision, multimedia flexibility and auto-saving.

Check out our FAQ for more on what’s new and legacy doc conversion.

The most flexible document hub in your digital classroom just got even more versatile with a modernised editing and annotation toolkit redesigned for precision and engagement.