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Maintaining the staff personal comment bank

Use the Staff Personal Comments window to maintain your personal comments in the comment bank. These are only available for you to use.

You can use:

Also see, Adding stored personal comments.

Opening the Staff Personal Comments window

Staff Personal Comments window key fields, links and buttons

Fields

Field

Description

Seq

Sequence number used to organise comments.

Topic

Topic or category that the comments relate to.

Rating

Assessment rating for an assessable staff comment.

Comment

The comment that is displayed if the student achieves the rating for the topic.

To personalise the comments, either use:

  • ? to replace the student's name in the output
  • the male pronoun so that the correct pronoun is applied based on the student's gender.

Depending upon their usage, gender-specific pronouns are:

  • he or she
  • him or her
  • his or her
  • himself or herself.

 

Note: The female possessive pronoun has two versions (her, hers) where the male has only one (his), which can cause ambiguity when converting. Consequently, the pronoun his is always converted into her. You may need to correct this to hers in some comments.

Buttons

Button

Description

Move up (up arrow, synweb)

Move comment up one place in the list.

Move down (down arrow, synweb)

Move comment down one place in the list.

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.

Copy Last button

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

Apply button

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

Close button

Close the window.

Command links

Link

Description

Spell check

Check the spelling of the highlighted text.

The UltimateSpell window is displayed.

Internet Explorer window (spell check)

UltimateSpell window key fields, links and buttons

Fields

Field

Description

Not in dictionary

The word highlighted in red is not in the default dictionary and may be misspelled.

Change to

Suggested alternative word.

Suggestions

List of suggested alternative words.

To select one of the suggested words:

  • select the word in the Suggestions field
    • click Change button.

Command links

Link

Description

Look up my meaning

Link to http://dictionary.reference.com to display the meaning of the selected word in the Suggestions field.

DICTIONARY.COMTM, DOCTOR DICTIONARY®, SPELLING.COMTM and Lexico® are trademarks and, where indicated, registered trademarks of Lexico or its subsidiary.

Buttons

Button

Description

Ignore button

Ignore the suggested change for the word.

For example, a word commonly used at your organisation is correct but is not in the default dictionary.

Ignore All button

Ignore all suggested changes.

Add to Dictionary button

Add the word to the dictionary. The word is no longer detected as misspelled.

Change button

Change the highlighted word to the correct word in the Change to field.

Change All button

Change all incorrect words with their recommended changes.

Tip: It is useful to check the text after selecting this option to avoid any unintended changes.

Show Options... button

Expand the options area and select to ignore:

  • words in uppercase letters
  • words in mixed case
  • words with numbers
  • repeated words
  • internet addresses
  • email addresses
  • filenames
  • HTML tags.

OK button

Accept any changes made and return to the previous window.

Cancel button

Return to the previous window without making any changes.

Last modified: 4/10/2012 11:48:12 AM

See Also

Entering and changing comments

Entering topic comments for student assessment areas

Entering overall comments

Entering stored comments

Checking the spelling of comments

Copying and pasting information into comments

Finding and replacing text within a comment field

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