How to Use Feedback Forms

Creating Feedback Forms

Feedback Forms allow creating highly customizable content by mixing text fields, checkboxes to selectively insert content, and traditional saved text content.

Feedback Forms

AP+ and Institutional users have access to create Feedback Forms for making more dynamic, customizable content.

Feedback Forms can use several options or styles and can even be combined. There are also additional options like showing unchecked items. Jump to the section you want to read about by clicking on link below.

Text Fields

Text fields (previously known as “Forms”) are a way to make comments more interactive and customizable. They prompt you to enter freeform text as part of a comment. A text field is generated using a pair of double-brackets in the content editor.

Create a text field using a pair of double brackets.

When you select this Feedback Form you will be prompted to enter text.

Word App: in AP for Microsoft Word the text field will open as an overlay over the toolbar rather than a pop up window.

Single Checkbox

Single checkboxes are great for adding optional, standalone pieces of content to a comment. To create a single checkbox, wrap the text in double curly braces. {{}} This will, when selected, insert only the text you’ve created without a bullet point or logic to add “and” at the end of the list like the Bulleted and Inline checkboxes.

Put {{ }} around text you want to be a checkable item.

When selected you will be able to check off which option(s) you want to use, if any.

The checked content will be inserted.

Inline Checkboxes

Inline checkboxes are created by enclosing the items in ((double parenthesis)) and separating each individual item with a comma.

Note: Since a comma will always create an optional Checklist item, full sentences with punctuation are more suited to a Bulleted Checklist.

Here an inline checklist is created to select from five improvement options on a presentation by putting the options between double parenthesis and separating them with commas.

The checklist allows you to select which items you want to insert.

Selecting the two options in the photo will result in this comment being inserted:

Notice how Inline checkboxes automatically take care of adding “and” before the final option (when you select more than one option).

Bulleted Checkboxes

Bulleted checkboxes are created by using a pair of brackets [] followed by a space. When you add the space after the brackets they will change to a closed box, indicating that a checkbox has been created.

Notice how the first item now has been converted to a Bulleted checkbox item. After adding a space to the second item it will create a closed box.

Bulleted checklists are ideal for standalone checklist comments, like marking what style guide issues need addressed.

This bulleted checklist has nine options for common failings with the MLA style guide. Four are marked off and will be entered.

The selected items are sent to the selected desintation with bullet points.

Combined Checklists

You can incorporate Single or Inline checkboxes into Bulleted items. For example, imagine you made a Rubric using Bulleted items. Instead of having a catch-all of possible objectives the student might not have achieved like a standard rubric, you could mark the specific objectives they didn’t achieve.

This student’s slide design needs some work. With Feedback Forms, you can select the specific elements they need to improve on, leaving out the irrelevant bits.

This Feedback Form leaves you with a succinct summary for the student, perfect for rubrics and marking guides.

Show Unchecked Toggle

By default, only items that are checked off will be inserted. However, there is an optional toggle at the top right of the checklist titled “Show Unchecked”. By selecting this option all the text of a bulleted type checklist will be inserted, both selected and unselected.

The toggle has been enabled so all content will be inserted.

When a Comment is inserted with this toggle turned on, the unselected text will be displayed in strikethrough or with an X or both, depending on the settings of the target destination.

Keep Feedback Form Open

Toggling the “Keep window open” toggle to On will keep a form open after inserting content.

With the toggle selected (top left) the checklist will remain open after clicking insert. Clicking the “Refresh” button (top center) will uncheck all the options.

Limitations

You can use put a text field in a comment that has with checkboxes, but you cannot put a text field inside a checkbox item since text fields always require some input and thus are not optional.

Inline checkboxes can be put inside of bulleted checklists, like in the example of a Rubric above. However, Bulleted checkboxes cannot be reliably put inside an inline checkbox without running into unwanted formatting problems.

Toggling to insert unchecked items is currently only available for Chrome. Toggling to insert unchecked items is built with Bulleted checkboxes in mind and may lead to inconsistent results when used with combined Bulleted and Inline checkboxes.

Instructional Text

Sometimes you might want to leave a note for yourself or others if you are sharing a Libary with your colleagues. To include this instructional text, that won’t be inserted with the Comment’s text, you can use the </> formatting option in the editor. That will put it in a black box that will show up when the dialog box opens, but that won’t be inserted.

The text in the black box will not be inserted when the comment is inserted.