TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– Improving the use of annotations in lecture recordings. Design/methodology/approach– Requirements analysis with scenario based design (SBD) on focus groups. Findings– These seven points have been extracted from the feedback of the focus groups: (1) Control of the annotation feature (turn on/turn off). (2) An option to decide who is able to see their comments (groups, lecturer, friends). (3) An easy and paper-like experience in creating a comment. (4) An option to discuss comments. (5) An option to import already existing comments. (6) Color-coding of the different types of comments. (7) An option to print their annotations within the context of the recording. Research limitations/implications– The study was performed to improve the open-source lecture recording system Opencast Matterhorn. Originality/value– Annotations can help to enable the students that use lecture recordings to move from a passive watching to an active viewing and reflecting. VL - 11 IS - 3 SN - 1741-5659 DO - 10.1108/ITSE-07-2014-0021 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/ITSE-07-2014-0021 AU - Rolf Rüdiger AU - Reuter Hannah AU - Abel Martin AU - Hamborg Kai-Christoph ED - Dr Markus Ketterl ED - Dr Christopher Brooks ED - Mr Florian Schimanke PY - 2014 Y1 - 2014/01/01 TI - Requirements of students for video-annotations in lecture recordings T2 - Interactive Technology and Smart Education PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 223 EP - 234 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -