Medical Education’s Updates

Constructive Feedback: Annotations

Learning Intention: To understand how to use the Annotations tool in Scholar.

When you are reviewing another student's work, Scholar allows you to make annotations, which are comments that are tied to a particular word or groups of words in a text. Through Annotations, you can provide more specific feedback to your peers. You’ll find Annotations at Creator => Feedback => Annotations. To make an annotation, first you need to highlight the part of the text that you are annotating and click 'Create an Annotation'.

There are two kinds of annotations:

  • Make a comment
  • Suggest a change (and then select the kind of change)

As soon as you make an annotation, the creator of the work gets a notification, and they can respond to you if they want to discuss your comment or suggestion further.

You can find out more about making annotations in Scholar at Submitting a Review and Annotations.

When you have completed all of the feedback requirements, go ahead and submit your feedback at About This Work => Project => Status.

Comment: Do you have any questions or comments about how Scholar works at this stage? Make a comment in this update. If you think you have an answer to another student’s question, please answer it - be sure to name the student you are replying to in your comment by including @Name.