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.
Only the notes you keep, your comments and the observations you adopted, appear on the student's report. 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.
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.