Providing feedback to students

You can give students written feedback by typing a message on a student screen from the Teacher tab in a lesson.

Click on the student answer for which you would like to provide feedback.

This will open the lesson page with the student’s answer.

You will be able to provide individual students feedback on that particular screen by clicking the message icon at the upper part of the page.

You are able to edit to make changes to your feedback or delete your feedback if needed.

Students will see your comment and develop their mathematical ideas further.

Researchers like Ruth Butler have found stronger results for feedback that directs students’ attention to their task (e.g., “Remember that you can try positive and negative numbers.”) instead of to themselves (e.g., “This one is wrong. Keep trying.”).

Send feedback to multiple students at once by selecting the checkboxes at the top of their work in the Teacher view. Click Send to send consecutive feedback to the selected students, or Send and Close to clear your selections and start fresh.

On the summary page, you can see whether or not a student has read your feedback.

Quickly scan the teacher dashboard to see where you’ve left comments, which comments have been read by your student(s) (gray), and which comments have not yet been read (teal).

After you provide feedback, students will see a message icon next to an assignment in Student Home.

Students will be able to view feedback by clicking on the Message icon to move directly to the screen the feedback is based on.

Once on that page, students can click the message icon at the upper part of their screen to see the feedback.