Faculty Access for the Web Support Roundtable on December 2

On Tuesday, December 2 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. ET, we are having a Faculty Access for the Web Support Roundtable. Willow Schultz and Nate Hall, our Education Solution Product Support Leads, will discuss all things Faculty Access for the Web. The roundtable is broken into sections with a question-and-answer period in between. The sections cover:

• Supervisor setup
• Teacher setup
• Posting grades, comments, and skills to Grades in The Education Edge
• Comment approval

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Comment Reviewing in FAWeb

Faculty Access for the Web comment reviewing allows peers, department heads, administrators, or advisors to review and approve teachers' gradebook comments before they are posted to The Education Edge. It's like having your own staff of editors to ensure you deliver the highest quality and most accurate comments! Let's take a closer look:

Before staff can review and approve comments, you must complete the following:

1. Decide who will have rights to review. To give a faculty member rights to comments, mark the appropriate school checkboxes on his record's Restrictions 1 tab.
2. Assign the appropriate group of reviewers for each school. The Supervisor selects the group on the Miscellaneous page in Faculty Access for the Web setup. The following groups are available for review:
   • Peer reviewers are faculty/staff members with rights to access Gradebooks for the school in which a class is taught.
   • Administrators are faculty/staff members whose security records include administrator rights for Faculty Access for the Web. You grant administrator rights by marking the Has administrator rights in Faculty Access for the Web checkbox on the Online Security tab of a user's security record in Administration.
   • Advisors are faculty/staff members with the Current Advisor checkbox marked on the Bio 1 tab of their Faculty/Staff records.
   • Department heads are faculty/staff members whose records list a Position on the Bio 2 tab that matches the position selected for department heads. You can select the position that designates department heads on the NetClassroom Registration Setup page in Configuration and the Miscellaneous page in Faculty Access for the Web Setup.
3. Set up teachers' gradebooks for review.
   • If comment reviewers are based on peer review, teachers must select the faculty members who will review their Gradebook comments:
     1. In Gradebook, click Setup.
     2. Click Reviewer Setup on the navigation bar.
     3. Select the teachers to review the comments. Select Yes in the Can edit column if the teacher can edit comments.
   • To make identifying grades with comments easier, click Customize on the Gradebook page and mark the Indicate Comments Present checkbox.
   • When a comment is ready for review, teachers must change the Comment Status on the comment screen to Ready for Review.

Now that comment review is set up, it's time to get those comments report card ready! To review comments, the reviewer teacher logs into Faculty Access for the Web, selects Gradebook, and then clicks the Comment Approval tab. He can review comments by Course, Teacher, or Student. If he has edit rights, he can edit the comment in Comment box, or, if he only has reviewer rights, he can enter his comments in the Reviewer's Notes box.

To complete the review process, the reviewer teacher changes the comment status to Approved and then saves and closes the comment.