The most obvious for me is to call a student over for a face-to-face chat about their work. Generally, I also collect and synthesise my comments into a teacher report and use a reply to the inital discussion forum to post a detailed report. I may include links to suggestions, course resources that have been uploaded, past examples of work by students, extracts or their personal reflections.

There are a couple of ways that teachers can give online feedback to students beyond adding a comment and grade. Colleagues have explored returning by e-mail by:

    * returning an assignment with corrections or embedded sound object containing verbal feedback.
    * hand annotate notes and using the photcopier in a scanner mode to create PDF files that can be returned.
    * using video capture software to record a file including teacher dialogue and an animated tour or review of the file submitted.



DOES OUR LCC COPIER HAVE THE ABILITY TO SCAN TO PDF DOCUMENTS?