Providing Feedback through the Grade book

Karla Embleton, embleton@iastate.edu
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Iowa State University
October 28, 2002
WebCT ver. 3.8

Interested in providing individual feedback to students along with their grades in WebCT? If so, you can create a comment column in your WebCT grade book.

Create the new column:

  1. Log in as course designer.
  2. From the Control Panel menu (left) select Manage Course.
  3. Select Add or Modify columns.
  4. The grade book columns are listed along with their property settings. If you want the new column added at any point other than the far right, click the checkbox above the existing column to the right of where you want your new column inserted.
  5. In the Organize Columns menu, click the radio button next to Add column, then click the Go button.
  6. When prompted, enter a header (title) for the new column, set the data type to Text, then click Add.

To release the new column to student view:

  1. Click the checkbox above the new column.
  2. Go to the Modify Columns menu, click the Release column radio button and set the associated pull-down menu to Yes.
  3. Click Update.

To enter or edit feedback:

  1. Click the Manage Students link in the breadcrumb trail (or click Manage Course -> Manage Students).
  2. Access a particular student’s record by clicking on the student’s underlined last name.
  3. Click the Create button in the feedback column. A new dialogue window appears.
  4. Click the Edit button, type in your note to the student, then click Update.
  5. Close the dialogue window.
  6. Click Update on the student record window.
  7. The course grade book will display with a new View button in the feedback cell for the student. To edit your note to the student, click the View button to bring back the necessary dialogue window.