Creating & Maintaining Your Personal Comment Library

Creating & Maintaining Your Personal Comment Library

In Waypoint, you are able to insert comments directly into a student's document during assessment.  These comments can be created during assessment or accessed from the Global Comment Library: a library created and maintained by your organization.  Over time, you can save new comments or copies of Global Comments into your own Personal Library.

Creating Personal Library Comments

1. Log into Waypoint
2. Click on the Engage tab
3. Open up the grading screen (where the Assignment rubric is displayed)
1. If the Begin Grading button is available, click it
2. If the Begin Grading button is unavailable
1. Click on the Show Roster button to open a list of students
2. Click on Grade next to a student’s name
4. Click on the “Comment Library” tab on the left side of the screen
5. Click Add
6. Input feedback text into the Add Comment text box
7. Input tags into the Tags text box
• Tags can contain spaces
• Use the Tab or Enter key to finalize a tag
8. Click the Add button to save the comment and return to the previous screen

During Assessment

1. Highlight text on the student document
• The comment text box opens
2. Type the feedback you wish to add
3. Click the Add button to open the Comment Library
4. Modify the feedback text if need be and add appropriate tags
5. Click on the Add button to save the new comment to your Personal Comment Library

Editing Personal Library Comments

1. Log into Waypoint
2. Click on the Engage tab
3. Open up the grading screen (where the Assignment rubric is displayed)
1. If the Begin Grading button is available, click it
2. If the Begin Grading button is unavailable
1. Click on the Show Roster button to open a list of students
2. Click on Grade next to a student’s name
4. Click on the Comment Library tab on the left side of the screen
5. Search for the comment you wish to edit, searching by feedback text or tag(s)
6. Once the comment is visible, click on the Edit button
7. Select the comment you wish to edit from the Matching Comments list
8. On the following screen, make adjustments to the comment feedback text or tags you see fit
• If it is a Global Comment, you will not be able to make any changes
9. Click on the Update button to save your changes

Deleting Personal Library Comments

1. Log into Waypoint
2. Click on the Engage tab
3. Open up the grading screen (where the Assignment rubric is displayed)
1. If the Begin Grading button is available, click it
2. If the Begin Grading button is unavailable
1. Click on the Show Roster button to open a list of students
2. Click on Grade next to a student’s name
4. Locate the Comment Library tab on the left side of the screen (next to the Assignment rubric) and click on Comment Library
5. Search for the comment you wish to delete, searching by feedback text or tag(s)
6. Once the comment is visible, click on the Edit button.  Doing so will prompt you to select the comment you want to edit – click on it from the list
7. On the following screen click on the Delete button
8. Click Confirm Delete to remove the comment from the Library