MarkBook® section 10-3
Comment Selection Screen - The Short Version MarkBook® section 10-3
Comment Selection Screen - The Short Version 
Select each student in turn by using either of the toggles beside the name at the upper right. The current student's name is in the window. The
down toggle will pop down a class list menu and you can click another name. Or, use the
up/down toggle to cruise through the class list in alpha order. Once selected, each student's performance data will appear. The number of
forgiven entries will appear in the NMk box. Zeros will appear in the Z! box. A mini trend graph
appears. Absences, if recorded, will appear in the Abs box. Click the
number to get an on-screen attendance report. The two buttons above the graph will create a graph for All
assessments as in this screen example, or for one category when that category is clicked in the chart above the
mini graph. The open comment bank appears in the large box at the lower left. In the
above example screen, the teacher has opened comment.bnk as in section
10-1. The 1295 comments currently in this bank are classified and displayed using a Type and a Level.
Add, modify, or delete these comments using the comment bank editor as described in section
10-4.
This teacher has used the Type and Level menus to the right of the comments to
display the ENG subset of the bank and further subdivided the hundreds of English comments to
display just the ones for Strength Level 3. There are four ways to build a comment paragraph in the student's comment
box at the upper left. Once in this box, MarkBook will store the assembled comment paragraph as a text file for this student when you exit this screen.
The first way is to click your mouse in the upper window box
and type your comment paragraph. The second way is to use your mouse to double click on any desired comment(s) in the bank. This will copy it from the bank,
comment.bnk, into the student's comment box. Repeat to copy a second, third, fourth, etc. Special characters in each comment ($, @, *,
#, ~)
merge first name and gender pronouns. The third way is to type the comment numbers in the student's box and push Enter on your keyboard. This technique requires that you know your comment numbers. To get these numbers, print the comments from your current
bank as in section 10-2. Or click on Comment Bank in the upper menu bar and select
Show Comment Numbers. The numbers will appear next to each sentence. Once you know your comment numbers by reading your comment file printout, section
10-2, or by turning on the numbers, click in the student's blank window, type 23,576,182,6,1177 (for example), push Enter on your keyboard and those five comments will appear in the student's comment
box. The selected comments will appear in the order typed and wrap together as a paragraph. You are not restricted as to the number of comments that you can
add. However, the size of the comment box on printed reports is limited. That
size can be controlled as in section 10-4. The fourth way is to click once on a comment, then click your mouse in the desired location and type Crtl-V. This will paste the comment into the selected location. This location can be inside a paragraph
already built. To find a comment with a particular word, type that word in the With cell, push Enter on your keyboard, and all available comments with that word will appear in the window.
The Type and level classifiers will still restrict the selection - it may be
best to set these at ALL. See section 10-4 for more details on classifying comments. Click on the Fits? button to determine if the constructed comment will fit in the target space of an electronic report. This fit value can be edited. The comment turns red if it exceeds the current fit value. More details are in
section 10-4 on Fit values and editing these. Click on Scan to display a list of students in this class who are without comments or who have comments that are too large for the available space on the printed report. If a student's assembled comment is too large, edit to reduce the size.
If there are comments already stored for the class and you wish to delete these prior to building new ones, click on File and select Clear All Comments in
[........ Set]. Alternatively, build a new set of comments so that prior ones are retained for comparison purposes.
Build up to ten sets of comments per Mark Set. See section
10-7 for details on building sets of comments. Click on the Clear
button to remove this student's comment from the window. Or, block the comment with your mouse and click the Delete key on your keyboard. Click on Save and
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