@andy-armstrong @auraz - Actually my main question is that when I try to pull in the information from the CommonAnnotateMixin I get the following:
```
{'display_name': 'Text Annotation', 'annotation_mode': <String annotation_mode>, 'course_key': SlashSeparatedCourseKey(u'Fake', u'1', u'1'), 'source': 'None', 'token': u'eyJhbGciOiAiSFMyNTYiLCAidHlwIjogIkpXVCJ9.eyJpYXQiOiAxNDAxOTI1NDY0LCAiZCI6IHsiaXNzdWVkQXQiOiAiMjAxNC0wNi0wNFQxNDo0NDoyNC42ODQzMzEtNDowMCIsICJjb25zdW1lcktleSI6ICI1ZDcwODdlNy0yN2JmLTQ3MmItODUwZS1kMTIwNWFhMDdjMjUiLCAidXNlcklkIjogImZha2VAZmFrZS5jb20iLCAidHRsIjogODY0MDB9LCAidiI6IDB9.YA2M24khoNcLGJz0TmnWWo4udBlcjaG0AEugBEu20Eg', 'tag': u'imagery:red,parallelism:blue,professor:green', 'instructions_html': u'<div><p>\n            Add the instructions to the assignment here.\n        </p></div>', 'diacritic_marks': u'ushape;http://www.halfwayproductions.com/slavonic/alphabet/images/kavyka.gif;top', 'instructor_email': <String instructor_email>, 'annotation_storage': <String annotation_storage_url>, 'default_tab': <String default_tab>, 'content_html': u'<annotatable><p>\n        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, at amet animal petentium nec. Id augue nemore postulant mea. Ex eam dicant noluisse expetenda, alia admodum abhorreant qui et. An ceteros expetenda mea, tale natum ipsum quo no, ut pro paulo alienum noluisse.\n    </p></annotatable>'}
```
Which you will show up as actual strings when pulled from AnnotateFields but show up as ```<String>``` from the ones I pulled in from the Mixin. thoughts? am I doing something wrong?