DE Oracle @ UMUC

Providing Feedback to Students Using Microsoft Word 2003 and a Master Comments List

CSI Staff

Staff Writer

Center for Support of Instruction

Published: November-December 2008

Category: » Tech-skills-software » Microsoft-word

Providing feedback to students using Microsoft Word 2003 and a master set of comments is relatively easy to do and it prevents you from having to repeatedly type the same comments.   

Here is a paragraph before feedback has been inserted:

Here is the same paragraph with feedback inserted using the "Track Changes" feature in Microsoft Word:

Here is the same paragraph with feedback inserted using the "Comment" feature in Microsoft Word:

To insert master comments in Word 2003 using the "Track Changes" feature:

1. Open both your master comments list and the student paper in Word:

2. In the student paper, select Tools-->Track Changes from the toolbar:

3. From your master comments list, select the appropriate comment you want to add to the student's paper and copy (press CTRL+C from the keyboard or right-click and select Copy from the mini-menu) the text:

4. In the student paper, place the cursor at the appropriate location and paste (press CTRL+V from the keyboard or right-click and select Paste from the mini-menu) the copied master comment. The copied comments will appear in the desired location, with color and underlining:

To insert master comments in Word 2003 using the "Comment" feature:

1. Open both your master comments list and the student paper in Word:

2. From your master comments list, select the appropriate comment you want to add to the student's paper and copy (press CTRL+C from the keyboard or right-click and select Copy from the mini-menu) the text:

3. In the student paper, select the portion of text you want to comment on OR place the cursor where you want to add a comment and then select Insert-->Comment:

 

4. Paste (press Ctrl+V from the keyboard or right-click and select Paste from the mini-menu) the copied master comment in the comment balloon editing box that now appears on the right-hand side of the page:

If you prefer not to work with the Comment Balloons, you can use the reviewing pane to add comments. You will need to be in Normal View to access the reviewing pane comments box: