{"id":8383,"date":"2025-10-06T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:08:15","slug":"inspera-enable-students-to-view-essay-feedback-comments-without-auto-marked-questions-becoming-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2025\/10\/06\/inspera-enable-students-to-view-essay-feedback-comments-without-auto-marked-questions-becoming-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspera: Enable students to view Essay feedback comments without auto marked questions becoming visible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspera&#8217;s feedback release aims for transparency for all exam questions, however this had caused limitation for Module Teams wishing to releasing Essay comments as feedback, without revealing correct answers to automated marking. A new workaround is now available.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/inspera-feedback-release\/feedback-essay-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Enabling Essay comment feedback only<\/em><\/a><em>:\u202f<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When marking an Inspera exam which includes Essay feedback comments that you wish to be visible to your individual students, comments must be saved as visible to candidate in <strong>Grade<\/strong> i.e.\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/10\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/10\/image.png 378w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/10\/image-300x86.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a. Feedback comments for individual student submissions are known on Inspera as \u2018annotations\u2019 and\/or \u2018page notes\u2019. <em>To see more about annotations or page notes go to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/marking-exams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Marking Exams in Inspera | Learning and Teaching @ Newcastle | Newcastle University<\/em><\/a><em> and navigate to \u2018How to mark manually marked questions using Inspera\u2019.\u202f<\/em>\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You must finalise marking to enable feedback release i.e. marks must be confirmed.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>Deliver<\/strong> tab for your exam.\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>a. You can do this by clicking Options and then \u2018Open test in deliver\u2019:\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Within Deliver, scroll down and click \u2018Show\/hide details\u2019 next to \u2018Options\u2019.\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tick <\/strong>Share comments with candidates (on the right hand side)\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/10\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/10\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/10\/image-1.png 426w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2025\/10\/image-1-300x137.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a. Please ensure you<strong> do not tick<\/strong> \u2018Enable Candidate Report\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Possible limitations:\u202f<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using this method means:\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Students would be unable to see final marks on Inspera <strong>however this would still be shown on Canvas Gradebook<\/strong>.\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There\u2019s no per question marks breakdown visible.\u202f\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Students see the question and their submitted answers <strong>only<\/strong> if an annotation or page note was left for them by a Marker.\u202f\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Leaving a page note for all candidates on a particular question becomes <strong>disabled<\/strong> when using this feedback option.\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions specifically about your feedback use case, please contact <a href=\"mailto:digital.exams@ncl.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital.exams@ncl.ac.uk<\/a>\u202f.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For general information about <strong>all <\/strong>feedback release options please see our dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/inspera\/inspera-feedback-release\/?_gl=1*oq4s14*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTYyOTAxMTQ0NC4xNzU1MDc3NDIw*_ga_VH2F6S16XP*czE3NTUwNzc0MTkkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTUwNzc0MTkkajYwJGwwJGg4MjQ1ODE1MDE.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feedback release website<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspera&#8217;s feedback release aims for transparency for all exam questions, however this had caused limitation for Module Teams wishing to releasing Essay comments as feedback, without revealing correct answers to automated marking. A new workaround is now available.\u202f&nbsp; Enabling Essay comment feedback only:\u202f&nbsp; \u202f&nbsp; a. Feedback comments for individual student submissions are known on Inspera &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2025\/10\/06\/inspera-enable-students-to-view-essay-feedback-comments-without-auto-marked-questions-becoming-visible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspera: Enable students to view Essay feedback comments without auto marked questions becoming visible&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8387,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions\/8387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}