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Giving Feedback on Student Work

Giving Feedbackon Student Work
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This Guide Will Cover Four Topics:

  1. Creating a Bank of Custom Feedback Comments
  2. Viewing Students' Unit Work and Essays
  3. Leaving Feedback on Students' Unit Work and Essays
  4. Collecting Student Essays

Creating a Bank of Custom Feedback Comments

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1. Navigate to the "Classes & Assignments" page

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2. Click either "Unit" or "Essay Feedback" under Custom Comments

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3. Type in your chosen comment, choose the default color, and click "Add Comment"

These comments are not static!


  • You can always edit them in the same page you made them.
  • When leaving them for a student, you can always change the wording and color of the comment.

Viewing Students' Unit Works and Essays

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1. Navigate to the "Classes & Assignments" page

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2. Choose the class

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3. Click "Manage" on the assignment you want to view

This button will be orange, like in the image, if a student has sent you an essay.
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4. Select a student

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5. Click either "View Unit," or to see their essay, "View"

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Blue or Orange?

If the essay button is blue, you can view but not leave comments.

If the button is orange, the essay is ready for feedback

More on Viewing Unit Work

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You can see students' annotations

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And their answers to the questions and prompts

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Easily switch between students

  • Either click the student's name
  • Or, "Next Student"

More on Viewing Essays

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You will see the current version of the student's essay

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You can also view previous versions

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Switch between students essays by clicking the student's name or "Next Student"

Leaving Feedback on Students' Unit Work

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1. Follow the above instructions for viewing student work

IN the top right, you will see 3 options for leaving feedback:

  1. Feedback
  2. Sticker
  3. Custom Comment

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Feedback

The feedback sticky note allows you to leave student-specific comments
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Sticker

A collection of stickers that can be placed on student work
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Custom Comment

Select a comment from your saved bank of custom comment.

Leaving Comments on Students' Essays

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1. To leave a comment - highlight the word, sentence or section that you would like to give feedback on

Then click "Add Comment"
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2. This will bring up a text box on the right side of the screen. You have 2 options for feedback:

  1. Type in a brand new comment on your student's essay. Feel free to change the color!
  2. Choose "Select Comment" to pick a Custom Comment that you made earlier. This was covered at the start of the guide.
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For the first option, just start typing in the text-box

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For the second, click "Select Comment"

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And then choose the desired comment

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5. Once you have finished commenting, you can either "Send to Student" or mark it as "Feedback Complete" at the bottom of the page

  • "Send to Student" will immediately send your comments to the student for them to see
  • "Feedback Complete" will prep the comments to be sent but not send them until you choose
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6. If you choose "Feedback Complete", you can send that feedback in 2 ways. Both are on the "Manage" screen

  1. Clicking "Send All Essay Feedback" will send all prepped feedback to all students.
  2. Clicking the Blue Checkmark next to "View Essay" will send the feedback just to that student

Collecting Students' Essays

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1. From the "Manage" page, Click "Collect All Essays"

This will collect the current essays for all students in the class as a version that can be graded and commented on
  • Only collects essays for students who have not sent you one (the buttons that are not orange)
  • Great for deadlines and timed essays to collect everything at once
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2. Click the orange circle for the student whose essay you want to collect

This will collect the current essay for the specific student as a version that can be graded and commented on


  • Collects just the one student's essay
  • Great if you have already sent back feedback to some students or you want to give others more time
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And that's all! Have questions?

Reach out to our Support team at support@dbqproject.com. Would you or your colleagues like a webinar to learn more about DBQ Online? Email our support specialist, Ben, at ben@dbqproject.com.