diff --git a/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/api/2.0/annotations/server/modifiers/addAnnotation.js b/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/api/2.0/annotations/server/modifiers/addAnnotation.js
index 97d05bc1abbc82d171288696a95cc46b10994178..c7eb6bb30901647f06548a46a9649cc1b887ffe2 100644
--- a/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/api/2.0/annotations/server/modifiers/addAnnotation.js
+++ b/bigbluebutton-html5/imports/api/2.0/annotations/server/modifiers/addAnnotation.js
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import Annotations from '/imports/api/2.0/annotations';
 
 const ANNOTATION_TYPE_TEXT = 'text';
 const ANNOTATION_TYPE_PENCIL = 'pencil';
-const PENCIL_CHUNK_SIZE = 100;
 
 // line, triangle, ellipse, rectangle
 function handleCommonAnnotation(meetingId, whiteboardId, userId, annotation) {
@@ -63,9 +62,13 @@ function handleTextUpdate(meetingId, whiteboardId, userId, annotation) {
 
 function handlePencilUpdate(meetingId, whiteboardId, userId, annotation) {
   // fetching annotation statuses from the config
-  const DRAW_START = Meteor.settings.public.whiteboard.annotations.status.start;
-  const DRAW_UPDATE = Meteor.settings.public.whiteboard.annotations.status.update;
-  const DRAW_END = Meteor.settings.public.whiteboard.annotations.status.end;
+  const ANOTATION_STATUSES = Meteor.settings.public.whiteboard.annotations.status;
+  const DRAW_START = ANOTATION_STATUSES.start;
+  const DRAW_UPDATE = ANOTATION_STATUSES.update;
+  const DRAW_END = ANOTATION_STATUSES.end;
+
+  const SERVER_CONFIG = Meteor.settings.app;
+  const PENCIL_CHUNK_SIZE = SERVER_CONFIG.pencilChunkLength || 100;
 
   const { id, status, annotationType, annotationInfo, wbId, position } = annotation;
 
diff --git a/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/server/app.yaml b/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/server/app.yaml
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 83d4aaaec7070c6bd8ff8b210b77c793e7046233..a7517aa7f3198a3194a705705c47ace4d14bf553
--- a/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/server/app.yaml
+++ b/bigbluebutton-html5/private/config/server/app.yaml
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 app:
   captionsChunkLength: 1000
+  pencilChunkLength: 100
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