Share information about assignments with your Teacher using problem notes

You can share information with your teacher using problem notes for an assignment. For example, you are having trouble understanding a problem in a math lesson. You can add a note to the problem asking your teacher for help. To alert your teacher that you added a problem note, if your teacher is using the Problem Note / Message Center E-mails school notification, he/she gets an immediate email notification. Also, a message appears in their Monarch Message Center Teacher Inbox as a visual alert that you need assistance. A link in the email notification as well as in the message lets your teacher easily get to the note and respond. See Write problem notes to your teacher.

Tip: Your teacher sees a red indicator with a count on the Notes button, like this , when a new note is added by you to a problem.

Your teacher can write notes to you about an assignment problem. Maybe your teacher has reviewed an upcoming lesson and has some guidance for you about a problem. To alert you that your teacher has added a problem note, a message appears in your Monarch Student Inbox. A link in the message lets you easily open the note and respond to it. See Read and respond to problem notes from your teacher.

Tip: You also see a red indicator with a number on the Notes button, like this , when a new note has been added by your teacher to a problem.

Note: You can add problem notes to all your active, open courses. Once a course becomes closed (this means, all the assignments are graded), existing problem notes can be viewed, but you cannot add notes to a problem in a closed course.

Note: Your teacher can delete a problem note in Monarch Teacher and this means you will not see the note in Monarch Student.

Write problem notes to your teacher

You can add one or more notes to problems in lessons, projects, quizzes, and tests.

1. Open a lesson, project, quiz, or test. See View and open assignments.
2. If you opened a lesson or project, click the Work on Questions button or the Questions tab.
3. Click a problem number for which you want to add a note, and then click the Notes button.
4. In the Notes for Question [number] page, in the Add a Note text box, enter your note, and then click the Add Note button. If desired, continue adding notes to the problem. If you are finished, click the Close X, or click another problem number.

Your teacher gets an immediate email notification (if your teacher is using the Problem Note / Message Center E-mails school notification) and/or a message in their Monarch Message Center Inbox alerting him/her about the note. If your teacher sends a response, you get a message in your Inbox. See Read and respond to problem notes from your teacher.

Read and respond to problem notes from your teacher

You can read and respond to problem notes sent to you by your teacher. You can open the problem note in your Message Center or when you open the assignment and go to the problem, the Notes button looks like this with a red indicator and the note count. When you read the note, the count changes or disappears entirely.

Note: You cannot view problem notes for blocked, unassigned, or future (not scheduled to be worked) assignments. You will get the message about the note, but you cannot open the assignment with the note until your teacher takes action to make the assignment available to you or the assignment is ready for work.

Note: When you try to open a problem note for a quiz or test, if the quiz or test is your next assignment, you are asked if you want to start the quiz or test. However, if the quiz or test has already been completed by you, you cannot open the note.

1. On your Home > Schoolwork page, in the Messages list, is a message with the subject "Teacher posted a new problem note" . Click the message in the list to open the message.

The message displays in your Inbox.

2. Read the message and if you want to respond to the note and see the problem, click the Click here link.

3. If the assignment is your next scheduled assignment, it opens to the problem with the note. Or, if the next assignment is a quiz or test, you may be asked if you want to start the quiz or test. Click Continue if you are ready to start.

4. Read the note and if you want to write a reply to your teacher, in the Add a Note text box, write your note. Click Add Note. Your teacher is immediately sent the note in a message.

Or

If you do not want to reply or you just want to close the note window, click the Close X.

5. You can:

• Keep the assignment open and continue working on it.

• Close the assignment and not work on it. To do this, click the Home button on the main nav bar.