Lesson comments
Leave notes on a lesson and read what your student wrote back.
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Every lesson has a Discussion thread in its drawer where you and your student can leave comments for each other: a question about the directions, a note on what to fix, or a well done.
Leaving a comment#
- Open the lesson by clicking its card on Today or Upcoming, or from a submission card or notification.
- Scroll to Discussion at the bottom of the drawer.
- Type in the Add comment box and click Add comment.
Each comment shows the author's name and the date. Comments from a parent carry a Teacher badge so a student can tell them apart.
Who gets notified#
A student's comment notifies every parent in the household; a parent's comment notifies the student, if they have their own sign-in. The notification is titled "{Name} commented on {Lesson}" and shows the start of the comment. Clicking it in the alerts bell opens the lesson.
The events are Comment from your student and Comment from your parent, both on by default, delivered by email, in-app and push according to each person's settings. See Notifications.
Where else comments appear#
Homeschool Activity on your home page logs every comment ("commented on"), with the lesson title linking to the drawer.
Visibility#
Comments are visible to everyone who can open the lesson: all parents in the household and the student. There is no private comment. For notes only parents should see, use the teacher notes on a grade. See Grading lessons.
Activities and events have no discussion thread; comments are for course lessons.
Need more help?#
Reach out any time at support@openskyplanner.com and we will be happy to help.