Student Can't Find Their Feedback

Where comments, rubric marks and notes on the paper show up for students in Canvas

Send it to the student 01 · Uploaded essay 02 · Typed in Canvas 03 · Essay on a quiz

Send it to the student

Copy the box below into a Teams message or email. The links go to Canvas's own guides, which students can open. A printable two-page version for students is right under the box.

Here is where to find my feedback on your essay in Canvas:

1. Grades: Click Grades in our course. A speech-bubble icon next to an assignment means there is a comment. Click it to read it.

2. Comments and rubric: Click the assignment title. Click View Feedback (top right) to read my comments. Click View Rubric to see the rubric rating I picked for each row.

3. Notes on your paper: On the same page, scroll down past the rubric. Your essay is shown there with my notes in the margin.

4. Essay on a quiz: Open the quiz and click View Results. My comment is in the Feedback box under your answer. If the quiz used LockDown Browser, open the quiz in LockDown Browser to see your results.

Guides: notes on your paper · quiz results

⬇ Download the student handout (PDF) Attach it to your Teams message or email, or post it in your own course. Students can't open this PD course.

Want this page in your own course? Teams Jason and he will copy it in. Students also practiced this in RaiderQuest · Op 3 — Read Your Feedback, so you can tell them "it's the Op 3 skill."

01Uploaded essayWord or PDF file · comments, rubric, notes on the paper

1. In Grades, the speech bubble opens your teacher's comment. The clipboard opens the rubric.

Student Grades page with the comment and rubric icons boxed in red

2. The comment opens in a panel on the right.

Feedback panel on the Grades page showing the teacher's comment

3. Click the assignment title. View Feedback (top right) opens the comments. View Rubric shows the rating picked for each row.

Assignment page with View Feedback and View Rubric boxed in red

Attempt 1 Feedback panel with the teacher's comment

4. Scroll down past the rubric. The essay is shown on the page with the teacher's notes in the margin.

The student's essay with two margin comments and their pins boxed in red

02Typed in CanvasText entry · comments only

Same button: View Feedback. Typed answers have no notes on the paper, so the comment is the whole message.

Text entry assignment with View Feedback boxed in red

03Essay on a quizNew Quizzes · comment sits under the answer

1. Open the quiz and click View Results. (A quiz comment does not show as a speech bubble in Grades.)

Quiz page with the View Results button boxed in red

2. The comment is in the Feedback box under the answer.

Quiz results with the Feedback from grader box boxed in red

"Waiting for grade" and 0 points means the essay has not been graded yet. The score updates when it is.

Quiz results showing 1 question requires grading and Waiting for grade, boxed in red

Quiz used LockDown Browser? The results open inside LockDown Browser, the same way the quiz did. If a student still sees nothing, the teacher has results hidden — see Students Can't See My Feedback.

Student asking about their Copyleaks score? At RJ, Copyleaks runs as an instructor-only tool, so students don't see a score or report anywhere in Canvas. See the Copyleaks row on Students Can't See My Feedback.

Screenshots: test student in an RJ demo course, 9 Oct 2026. Student handout (PDF): download.