📖 Veriprose Gloss

1Opening Gloss

Gloss is one page, and it works in any modern browser with nothing to install and no account to create.

2Adding a source to read

Almost every assignment is a PDF, so that's the path below. You can add more than one source to a single session if the assignment calls for it.

Add PDF (the usual case)

1. Click "Add PDF" in the header and choose the assigned file. There's no form to fill out — the filename becomes the reading's title automatically.
2. Gloss reads the file itself, so you don't need to enter any ID or reference for a PDF — it's matched against the assignment automatically, from the file you uploaded.
3. The reading opens as real page images, so your highlights land on the actual layout — useful for anything with footnotes, columns, or figures.
4. A segmented switch above the reading lets you flip between Pages (the PDF as images) and Text (the extracted text, easier to search).

Add text (occasional case)

If your instructor points you to a plain article or transcript instead of a PDF, use Add text:

1. Click "Add text." A dialog opens with two fields.
2. Title — a short, recognizable name for the reading (for example, Dittman v. UPMC Appellate Ruling).
3. Paste the article or transcript text into the large box, then click Add source.

3Highlighting and writing notes

There's no separate "highlight" button. Just select a passage of text with your mouse or trackpad, directly in the reading pane, the same way you'd select text to copy it. Releasing the selection opens the note box automatically, anchored to exactly what you selected.

In the note box

1. Pick a highlight color. Six are available — use them however makes sense to you (for example, one color for claims, another for evidence), or just pick your favorite.
2. Tags are optional. If you want one, pick from Author's Claim, Evidence, My Question, Connection, or Personal — or type your own and click + Tag. Skipping this step is fine; a note doesn't need a tag to save.
3. Use a starter prompt if you're stuck — clicking one drops a sentence-starter into the note text, which you finish in your own words.
4. Write your note in the text box: what the passage does, and why it matters.
5. Click "Save note." The passage stays highlighted in your chosen color, and the note appears in the Notes panel on the right.

Editing or removing a note

Double-click a highlighted passage in the reader, or click the note in the right-hand list, to reopen it. From there you can change the color or tags, edit the text, or click Delete to remove the note and its highlight entirely.

4Finding your notes again

Everything you've written lives in the Notes panel on the right, and a long reading can produce a lot of notes fast. A few tools keep them manageable:

• Search the notes box for any word in your notes, the quoted passage, or a tag.
• Filter by color or filter by tag using the two dropdowns above the list — including any custom tags you've added yourself.
• Click any note in the list to jump straight to its passage in the reader.
• The thin strip along the left edge of the reader shows a small pin for every note's position, even ones currently scrolled out of view — useful for seeing at a glance where your annotations are clustered.

5Exporting and submitting

Protecting your work across more than one sitting

Most assignments take more than one sitting to annotate fully. Treat exporting like saving a document you care about:

1. Export before you stop — even if you're not finished. Click Export, fill in the dialog, and click Download .gloss to get a current copy onto your computer.
2. Next time you sit down, use "Import .gloss" in the header to reload that file. Every source, highlight, and note comes back exactly as you left it, and you keep working in the same session.
3. Export again each time you stop, rather than trusting one browser tab to stay open. A newer export simply replaces the older one as your working copy — keep the most recent file.

Submitting the finished file

1. Click "Export" in the header.
2. Check the course key and type your name in the dialog that opens.
3. Click "Download .gloss." This saves a single .gloss file to your Downloads folder — it holds every source, every highlight, and every note you wrote.
4. Turn that file in the way your instructor collects it — the D2L dropbox or a Google Classroom assignment, whichever your class uses.

The file is signed at export, which is how your instructor's review tool confirms it wasn't edited after you turned it in — it's a check for accidental changes, not a claim about who wrote it.

6What Gloss records

Gloss keeps a running count of your activity — visible in the footer at the bottom of the page as you work, so nothing it tracks is hidden from you.

Nothing is uploaded until you click Export — everything before that lives only in your browser tab. The privacy statement covers this in full, including the small amount of ordinary web traffic (fonts, page-visit counting) that isn't your reading or notes.

7Common questions

Do I need to sign in?

No. Gloss has no login and never asks for an email or password. The only identifying text is the name you type into the Export dialog.

I closed the tab before exporting. Did I lose my notes?

Usually not. Open Gloss again on the same computer, in the same browser, and your sources, highlights and notes come back — Gloss saves the session as you work. You will be asked to re-open the PDF, since that part is never kept. What that copy will not survive is a different computer, a different browser, or clearing your browsing data — so export a .gloss file before you stop, and especially before shutting down for the day.

Can I add more than one source to the same session?

Yes. Add as many as the assignment calls for — they all export together in one .gloss file.

Is any of this sent to a company?

Your reading and notes are not. The page does load fonts from the internet and counts page visits for ordinary site measurement — no reading or note content involved. See the privacy statement for details.