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Entering class subject and academic standard report card comments enables you to add comments to your students report cards individually or en masse. Depending on how your school office has configured report card comments, you may be able to enter comments using a pre-determined comment set or enter in free-form comments. For this video we’ll be going through how to enter subject and academic standard report card comments. Within the Teacher Access, we’ll navigate to the Gradesheet feature in the Gradebook module. We’ll select the class tile we want to add report card comments to. To add subject comments, we’ll click on the subject header. For our example, we’ll select the Math header. Within the Subject Options drop-down menu, we’ll click on the Add / Edit Comments for Subject option. Here, we have the option to add the same comment to all our students by entering a comment within the “Default Blank Comments to” field or enter individual comments by utilizing the Add Free Form Comment options next to each student. Since we want to enter the same comment for all our students, we’ll enter our comment within the “Default Blank Comments to” field. Let’s click the green checkmark to apply this comment to all our students. We’ll notice that this comment now displays next to each student. Let’s click Save & Back to return to the gradesheet. Next, we’ll add academic standard comments. Similarly, we’ll click on the academic standard heading that we want to add comments to. For our example, this will be our Mathematical Process Standards heading. Within the Academic Standard Options drop-down menu, we’ll select the Add / Edit Comments for Academic Standard option. If we have additional academic standards that we’d like to enter comments for, we could search for them within the Academic Standards field. For our video, we also want to add comments for the Recognizes numerals academic standard. We’ll notice that this academic standard now populates on the screen. Let’s add a comment for the Mathematical Process Standards and apply it to all our students. Again, we’ll enter our desired comment into the “Default Blank Comments to” field and then click the green checkmark. For the Recognizes numerals academic standard, we want to enter different comments for each of our students, so we’ll utilize the Add Free Form Comment option next to each of our students. Within the Free Form Comment drop-down, we’ll begin entering our comment for this student. Let’s click Done to apply this comment to this student. We’ll repeat this process for our remaining students. Once we’ve entered in all our desired comments, we’ll click Save & Back. Back on the Gradesheet, we’ll notice that we now have comment indicators for the subject and academic standards we just added. We can view these comments if we want, by clicking on the desired comment icons under the subject or academic standards headers. Now that you know how to enter class subject and academic standard report card comments, you can ensure that you’ll be able to add comments individually or en masse, depending on how your students are doing in class.