This is a useful feature of Mahara. You have the ability to give feedback on any page that you have access to. This might be useful in the following situations:
- You might have asked a peer on a course for feedback on some work that you are doing — in exchange for feedback that you can give on their work.
- A tutor may have added your page to their watchlist. You may then be getting some informal feedback from your tutor on your work before you submit it for formal assessment (see more on formal assessment in Chapter 6, Course Groups and Other Roles in Mahara).
- You could be using the feedback functionality as a communication vehicle. You may raise a topic for the discussion for your workmates, for example, and get them to answer the core question posed in your page by using the feedback option.
- You may have used a page in Mahara to share highlights of a recent holiday experience with your friends. They could then use the feedback option to tell you how jealous they are of your rich experiences or at least of your sun tan!
The feedback that you give can be both private or public (although anonymous comments may have been turned off by the site administrator). When you send private feedback, the feedback is sent to the person who has created the page and nobody else can see it. With public feedback, all users who have and will have access to this page can see the feedback, and it will appear at the bottom of the page. Any public feedback that is submitted is public unless and until the person who owns the page decides to make it private. If you own the page on which feedback is being placed, you have the right to remove that feedback.
So, let's now look at the process for giving feedback on a page.