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Question: I want to give final summative feedback to a group using a blog or journal rather than individual students?
Note: if you want to give formative feedback in these tools then we recommend that you write a post in the Blog or Journal in response to the students as this is a demonstration of best practice. You can also add plain text comments onto individual posts.
Answer: You can do this most effectively from the grade centre using the ‘Mark Group Attempt’ option. If you have smartviews setup in the grade centre for you groups, this can be very helpful for filtering the view of columns to a specific group of students.
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