Location:

Sidebar / Participants / Click participant / Notes

Description:

The Notes report shows all site notes, current course notes, and all personal notes entered by the current user.

Intended audience:

Not clear. Site notes have visibility to managers, possibly all teachers. Course notes are available to all teachers for a given course. Personal notes are, presumably, only available to the person who wrote them, but relate to specific students.

Purpose:

This appears to be intended as an annotation system to make staff at an institution aware of issues related to students as observed by other staff members.

Suggestions:

1. Make Notes for a given student appear on that student’s Profile page for those with permission to see them.
2. Add explicit warnings about who will be able to see a note when it is posted (before saving).
3. Display participant Notes (or at least a link to notes) on Enrollment report

Conversion to Configurable Reports:

The following enhancements to Configurable Reports (detailed above) would be needed to convert this report:

1. Report type: Notes
2. Group/Break with Headers
3. Cell calculations (to style headers) and concatenation
4. Row actions