The Drawing tool during inline evaluations has started making rectangles and won't stop

Question

I've already used the inline evaluation tool to mark up several of my students' assignments. But now the Drawing Tool makes vector rectangles and nothing else. When I place a point to draw, it is the origin of a rectangle. The highlighter tool still works as intended (freeform lines/drawing). Even when I go back to old assignments that I've already marked-up, the drawing tool will only create rectangles. I've fiddled with all the settings I can think of.

I've stopped using my digital pen and am just using a cursor now. I've also restarted my browser and cleared my cookies.

Diana.S.6467 · Answer

I found a solution for this! The exact same thing happened to me and now I know why. You need to select no fill colour (the red diagonal line - see screenshots below). What happened for me is the pen colour and fill colour were both the same, and so when I annotated it just looked like a box (that kept expanding as I drew wider and wider.) It's easier to see what actually happens if you have the fill colour set different than the pen colour - as you draw, it puts a box around/behind your annotations. If you turn it back to having no fill, it just works like annotation should.

mrimple@wcupa.edu · Answer

The issue invovles the annotation tool - you can select the DRAW icon, but the cursor only creates black boxes instead of tracking with the input device (Mac, internal touch pad).  I'm using Mac OS Ventura 13.6.7.

mrimple@wcupa.edu · Answer

I have the exact same issue.  Started in October 2024.  I can find nothing related to it beyond this post.  I sent in a ticket already, but FYI, this is occurring on both Firefox and Chrome and has made grading my assignments much harder and less effective.  This seems related to the redesign of this tool and its sudden change at my institution.