Quick Tip: Create MAGIC - Part 5 (Comment Library)
This is the final installment of the Regional Campus Instructional Design team’s 5-week series on communication, and MAGIC is our acronym that will help you engage and connect with your students.
As a reminder from last week, MAGIC stands for the following:
- Message Students Who
- Announcements
- Grade comments
- Inbox
- Comment Library
Comment Library
This week is brought to you by the letter C!
We talked about Grade Comments a couple weeks back as a mechanism for communicating with individual students directly within the context of their submitted Canvas assignments. We covered most of the features available for grade comments, but thought this particular tool was worthy of its own letter in our MAGIC acronym.
The Comment Library allows you to save your commonly-used grading and feedback comments to a repository. You can then reuse your saved comments later for other submissions. This tool can help make your grading process more efficient, while still providing students with substantive feedback.
How to access the Comment Library
The Comment Library is built right into SpeedGrader, but it’s easy to overlook. When you open a student’s submission in SpeedGrader and look at the Assignment Comments section on the right, you’ll see a little speech bubble icon with a number after it. That is the icon for the Comment Library, and the number indicates how many comments you have saved to your library.
When you click on the Comment Library icon, your Comment Library will appear in the panel on the right side of the screen. All of your saved comments will appear at the top. Simply click on a comment to insert that text into the Assignment Comments field for that submission.
Manage your Comment Library
You can add, edit, and delete comments from your Comment Library at any time. To add a comment to your library, type in the text in the textbox at the bottom, then click the +Add to Library button. To edit or delete a saved comment, use the pencil and trashcan icons to the right of the comment.
You can also choose whether or not you want Canvas to suggest comments from your library when you are typing in the Assignment Comments field by using the toggle button at the top.
Did you know? Your Comment Library is tied to your Canvas account, so you can access and use it from any course in which you are an instructor.