The comment column on a report card can say something different for every subject. Dashboard → Assessment → Subject Remarks is where those words are written: a set of mark bands per class and subject, each with the remark that prints when a student's average in that subject falls inside it.
This sits above the grading scale's per-grade comment, which still applies to any subject you have not written bands for.
Writing remarks for a subject
- Go to Dashboard → Assessment → Subject Remarks.
- Pick the Class, then the Subject. Only subjects that class actually sits are offered.
- Choose By grade or By marks range — see below.
- Type the remark for each band. A counter shows how much room is left.
- Press Save.
Saving replaces that subject's whole set, so clearing a remark removes its band.
By grade, or by marks range
The two are the same thing stored two ways, and you can switch between them without losing what you have typed.
- By grade lists the department's grading bands — A, B, C, D, or D1–F9 — with their mark ranges fixed and shown for reference. Use this when the school already thinks in grades.
- By marks range lets you set the boundaries yourself, and add or remove as many bands as you like. Use this for a class that reports marks rather than grades, such as lower primary.
The screen opens on whichever suits the class. A department with no grading scale configured can only use mark ranges.
Ranges must not overlap. Two bands covering 70 would mean the remark a child gets depends on the order the rows happen to be in, so the screen refuses to save it.
Copying to other subjects
Copy to every subject clones the bands you are looking at onto every other subject the class sits. Subjects that already have bands are overwritten, and anything the class does not sit is skipped.
What prints
On the report card, each subject's row shows the remark for the band its average falls in. A subject with no bands prints its grade's comment from the grading scale instead, and if neither exists the column does not print at all — an empty column is worse than none.
The column no longer depends on the card showing grades, so nursery and lower primary cards carry subject remarks too, which they never used to.
Remarks are capped at 32 characters so the row stays on one line of an A4 page.
What parents see
Guardians see the same remarks in the parent portal once the term is completed.