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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

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 button

Add a new comment, at the end of the list of comments.

Insert button

Insert a new comment, just before the highlighted comment.

Delete… button

Delete the highlighted comment.

Move… button

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.

Move Comment window

Spell Check button

Check the spelling of the highlighted text.

The Spelling window is displayed.

Spelling window

Copy Last button

Insert a comment before the highlighted comment, identical to the last comment added.

Tree button

Display the hierarchy of comments using the Comment Tree window.

Comment Tree window

Apply button

Save the comment you are adding or changing, and continue maintaining comments.

OK button

Save the comment you are adding or changing, and exit.

Last modified: 4/10/2012 11:53:53 AM

See Also

Staff Maintenance - Classes tab

Maintaining the staff mark book

Importing the staff mark book

© 2013 Synergetic Management Systems. Published 15 October 2013.

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