Locate and Review Feedback

Modified on: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM

Intended Audience: Students

About

This guide explains how students can locate and review instructor feedback on assignments and graded items within a Brightspace course. Feedback may include text comments, inline notes, rubrics, or attached files.

Students who want to receive notifications about feedback via text or email can adjust their preferences in the Update My Information section of Brightspace.

Instruction

1. Navigate to Grades Through “My Progress”

On the top navigation bar, click My Progress.
In the left-hand menu, select Grades.

This page will display a list of graded units and assignments.
The Grades Progress page is displayed showing arrows pointing to My Progress in the navbar, the Grades option in the left menu and another pointing to the 4 Items drop-down within the Unit 3 Graded Items list.

2. Expand Graded Items

Within each unit, a list of graded items will appear.
Click the drop-down arrow next to the number of graded items (e.g., "4 Items") to expand the list and view individual assignments.

3. Access Feedback Details

For each graded item, students may find one or more of the following types of feedback:

Text Feedback: Expand the Feedback section to read written comments provided by the instructor.
Inline Feedback: Click View Inline Feedback to open a PDF version of the submitted assignment. Comments or highlights will appear as notes directly on the assignment file.
Graded Rubric: Click View Graded Rubric to open a detailed window showing: Points earned for each criterion and Instructor comments for specific rubric items

These tools help students better understand what was done well and where improvement is needed.

The Graded Items module in the Grades page shows arrows pointing to the Unit 3 Assessment Feedback drop-down. It also shows the expanded text to reveal feedback text as well as two links, one to the inline feedback and another to view graded rubric. A blurred out portion of a PDF scanned image of an assignment is shown with an arrow pointing to a notes icon. The notes are displayed as feedback for students to review. An example rubric is shown with the page scrolled down to the bottom. The overall score is selected, in this example it is Proficient.

Stay Informed with Notifications

To receive updates when new feedback is available, students can enable SMS or email notifications by customizing settings under Update My Information in their Brightspace account.