When the assistant grades, it does more than propose a score: it leaves observations in the margin, tied to specific passages. Reviewing them is where you shape the feedback a student actually receives.
Two kinds of margin notes
- Observations are the assistant's. Each one points at a passage and makes a point about it. You adopt the ones that help and dismiss the ones that do not.
- Comments are yours. You write them directly on the work, anchored to whatever passage you select.
What lands on the student's report
By default every observation the assistant leaves starts on the student's report, alongside your own comments. You curate down rather than up: hide anything you would rather the student not see using the eye icon on its card, or dismiss it outright to remove it. Use the comment filter's Show shown and Hide shown controls when you want to change every currently visible note at once. Nothing is sent until you release the work, so there is no rush to it.
If you would rather start from an empty report and add each note yourself, turn off AI comments on the student report by default in Settings, under Grading. Either way a dismissed observation is gone.
Anchored to the work
Both kinds attach to specific text, so a student sees feedback right next to the sentence it is about, not a vague summary at the end. A note that is not about one passage in particular lives in a document-level deck instead, and prints on the report's cover page rather than in the margin.
Occasionally a note that is about a passage still ends up there: if its quote cannot be located on the page, there is no margin for it to sit in. In the margin its eye turns brass rather than blue, and hovering it tells you it will print as a cover note. It still reaches the student either way, so nothing you keep is lost.
Staying in control
This is the heart of staying in charge of the grade: the assistant surfaces a lot of concrete, passage-level observations quickly, and you curate them into the feedback you actually stand behind. Adopt generously, dismiss freely, and add your own voice where it matters. See How grading works for how observations relate to the score.