MarkBook® section 10-2
MarkBook Comment Bank Printouts Print your comment banks to give easier access to those comments available. Each bank is restricted to 7500 comments but there's no limit as to the number of banks.
MarkBook® section 10-2
MarkBook Comment Bank Printouts The file called
comment.bnk has each comment classified into a TYPE
category such as ACH for achievement, ART for Art, etc. Each is also identified
with a Level such as positive (+), or negative (-), or strength (STR),
or area for improvement (IMP), or next steps (NXT).
Each of these classifiers is restricted to five letters or numbers. Use
a multi-level classification such as 1,2,3,4 to further subdivide these
categories.
The image shown here is a portion of the first page of a total of thirty printed
pages including all 1296 comments in this bank. Other TYPE categories (not shown) include other subjects (e.g. BUS, DRA, MAT, PHY, SCI, etc.) and other
LEVEL performance indicators (EFF for effort, HAB for habits, LSK for learning skills, etc.).
This is part of the generic bank already installed in your MarkBook directory.
MarkBook lets you add comments, delete comments, or edit these comments as your needs dictate - see section
10-4. The maximum number MarkBook will store is
7500 per bank. If you wish, delete subject-specific comments that pertain to subjects you do not teach.
However, do NOT delete comments from a networked banks - your colleagues may be
using these! The comments are set up to
substitute/merge each student's first name and gender
pronouns into the selected comment using special characters. To do this, the comment file uses "$" to merge a first name, "#" to merge his/her, "@" to merge he/she,
"*" to merge him/her, and "~" to merge son/daughter. When you
add your own comments to this file,
use these same characters to merge your new comment with any student's report. Use the procedures described in
section 10-3 and section 10-5. If you wish, use MarkBook's comment editor to print
your comment bank(s). This facilitates merging comments into each student's report by typing the comment
number (left column in this printout)! The key to MarkBook's comment system is to avoid repetitive typing. Also, add any custom
comments that you use frequently into the bank.