Entering stored personal comments

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Last updated: Oct 04, 2021 by Richard Kennedy (Unlicensed)
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You can create and maintain your own bank of personal comments. Personal comments can be added by:

  • clicking  on the relevant tab or window in Students Results Maintenance
  • then clicking .

Also, see Entering stored comments.

To create a new personal comment or maintain existing ones:

  1. Open one of the following tabs or windows:
    • The Single Student tab of the Student Results Maintenance window. See Student Results Maintenance - Single Student tab.



    • The All Students tab of the Student Results Maintenance window. See Student Results Maintenance - All Students tab.



    • The Assessment tab of the Student Results Maintenance window. See Student Results Maintenance - Assessment tab.



    • The Topic Comment window available by clicking  from either the:
    • Single Student tab of the Student Results Maintenance window. See Student Results Maintenance - Single Student tab.
    • AllStudents tab of the Student Results Maintenance window. See Student Results Maintenance - All Students tab.



  2. Click .
    The Comment Tree window is displayed with:
    • your existing Personal comments
    • pre-defined comments for the assessment that this class is associated with
    • pre-defined comments for the assessment areas.



  3. Click .
    The Staff Personal Comments window is displayed.

Staff Personal Comments window key fields and buttons
Fields

Field

Description

Topic

Topic used to define the second level categories of personal comments.

Rating

Rating used to define the third level categories of personal comments.

Comment

Stored comment that can be pasted into the relevant Comment field.

Name substitution occurs in comments wherever a question mark - '?' is present. When you manually enter comments, if you type in a question mark, the student's name is automatically substituted.

Note: Synergetic replaces a ? with the Given1, Preferred or PreferredFormal name, depending on the StudentResultsMaint|CommentName configuration setting. See CommentName configuration setting in the System maintenance manual.

Departmental or learning area comments are set up by the people with rights to Subject Assessment Area Maintenance. A comment bank can also be maintained by individual staff members.


Buttons

Button

Description

Add a new personal comment at the end of the list.

Add a new personal comment immediately before the selected comment.

Delete the selected comment.

Move the selected comment to another location in the list.

Perform a spell check on the text in the Comments field.