1. In the assignment you wish to allow inline commenting, click on the Settings tab.
2. Make sure your submission types are set to accept online text or file submissions.
3. Set the word limit for online text submissions.
4. Enter “.docx and .doc” in the “Accpeted file types” field.
5. Toggle “Feedback comments” on.
Check the “Comment inline” option on.
6. That is all for the settings.
Click “Save and Display.”
1. If the assignment is graded and feedback is released, students can click on the assignment link to see their grades and any feedback given to them.
2. Here is the feedback that is first visible to the students.
3. Scrolling down, you can see that the feedback comments instruct the student to see the annotated PDF file for detailed feedback.
Click “View annotated PDF…” to see the comments placed using the annotation tool feature.
4. Students can also select the page of the document they wish to view, as there may be more feedback on the next pages.
5. If feedback comments, annotated PDFs, or Feedback files were used to provide feedback, they will also be visible to the student.
1. Click on the assignment you wish to grade in your course.
2. Click “View all submissions”
3. You will have to scroll to the right in the grading area
4. Choose a student submission and click “Grade”
5. Click this button to add a comment. The colour swatch beside it can be changed to a different one to differentiate between comments.
6. Click and drag to make your comment box. Once created, type your comment inside.
7. You can use the other tools to create comments or marks on the PDF.
The document has four pages that you can switch through. Use the arrows to navigate through the pages. Be sure to grade all the pages of the submission.
8. Once done with comments, give a grade to the student.
9. You can also provide some written feedback outside of the submitted document. Students will see the comments in their grading area.
10. Click “Save and show next” to go to the next ungraded submission.
1. This button chooses which colour the drawing tools will use.
2. This button allows you to type comments.
3. Choosing the rectangle icon and the green ink colour will produce a green rectangle.
4. Create a circle in the color chosen.
1. If you have an assignment for which you want to accept PDF submissions, click “Settings.”
2. Make sure “File submissions” is selected as a submission type.
Then, choose the limits for the files that can be uploaded.
In this case, we will accept a maximum of 2 files that can’t be larger than 500 kb. You can choose higher settings if you think the documents they upload will be larger.
3. Next, we want to limit the types of files that can be uploaded. In this case, we only want to allow PDFs so we can use the “Annotated PDF” marking feature.
Click the “Choose” button beside the accepted file types field.
4. Expand the Document files choices. You will see the specific choices for the document files.
5. Toggle on “PDF document” and toggle off
“Document files.” This will limit submissions to PDF only.
Be sure to “Save changes.“
6. Next, we move on to “Feedback types” and choose “Feedback comments” and “Annotate PDF.”
This way, a PDF can be annotated with marks that can be highlighted, etc., and you can also type in any additional comments.
We won’t need inline comments turned on, as the text in PDFs cannot be pulled into the feedback field like it can with Word documents.
7. Be sure to set the other submission settings to your specifications.
8. Once all the settings are set, click “Save and display.“
How To Grade Assignments and Provide Feedback with inLine Comments
1. In your course, click on the assignment for which grading is required.
2. You can click “View all submissions ” to choose a specific student to grade.
3. Choose the student whom you wish to grade. Click “Grade”
4. You can see how many words were submitted and can click on the “+” icon to “View full”
5. In the “Feedback comments” area, the text submitted by the student is pulled into the “Feedback comments” field so that you can provide feedback inline.
6. Once you are done providing grades and comments for this submission, click “Save and Show Next” to go to the next student submission.