Maintaining the staff personal comment bank

Use the Staff Personal Comments window to maintain comments for a staff member, including for staff assessment purposes.

Note: You can also use Student Results Maintenance to enter personal comments. See Maintaining student results in the Assessments and reports manual.

Opening the Staff Personal Comments window

To open the Staff Personal Comments window:

Select Module > Human Resources > Staff Maintenance from the main menu.
Tip: You can also access the staff functions by clicking .
Search for the staff member. See Searching for staff members.
The Personal tab of the Staff Maintenance window is displayed.
Click the Classes tab.
The Classes tab of the Staff Maintenance window is displayed.
Click .
The Staff Personal Comments window is displayed.

Staff Personal Comments window key fields and buttons
Fields

Field	Description
Seq	Sequence number used to organise comments. Note: This field is automatically populated.
Topic	Topic or category that the comments relate to.
Rating	Assessment rating for an assessable staff comment.
Comment	Comment that is displayed if the student achieves the rating for the topic. To personalise the comments, either use: ? for Synergetic to replace the student's name in the output the male pronoun (he, his, him) so that the correct pronoun is applied based on the student's gender.

Buttons

Button	Description
	Add a new comment, at the end of the list of comments.
	Insert a new comment, just before the highlighted comment.
	Delete the highlighted comment.
	Move the highlighted comment: up a level in the hierarchy of comments down a level in the hierarchy attach the comment to another comment that you choose from a drop-down list. The Move Comment window is displayed.
	Check the spelling of the highlighted text.
	Insert a comment before the highlighted comment, identical to the last comment added.
	Display the hierarchy of comments using the Comment Tree window.
	Save the comment you are adding or changing, and continue maintaining comments.
	Save the comment you are adding or changing, and exit.