Stakeholder review: links, feedback and the author inbox

In the course editor, open More → Share; in the Scenes editor, open Tools → Share for review (or ⌘K → Share for review). In Share for Review, give the session a title if you like ("Client Review — April 2026") and click Create Review Link, then Copy and send the link however you normally would. Or fill in Email this link to the reviewer (and an optional Message) and click Create and email link: Scormbusters sends them the link, and says so; if the email could not be sent, it tells you, so you can send the link yourself.

• Reviewers do not need an account and do not use a seat: the link is their access. Reviewers are free and unlimited on every plan.
• A link shows the whole course. A block course is shown lesson by lesson; a Scenes course plays every slide in the real player.
• Links expire after 30 days. Existing review links lists each one with its verdict (Approved or Changes requested), when it expires, and how many comments are open. Revoke (then Confirm revoke) ends a link at once; its comments are kept.

Everyone on the team who can see the course sees all of its review links.

The reviewer opens the link, types their name, and comments. On a block course they select the block a comment is about; on a Scenes course a comment attaches to the slide on screen. A comment with no block or slide is General.

Each comment has a kind, chosen from What kind of feedback is this?:

• This is wrong — a factual error, with room to write the correct version.
• Something is missing.
• Someone will not be able to use this — an accessibility problem.
• Say it differently — wording, with room to write it the way they want it.
• Wrong image or video.
• I have a question.
• This looks good.

For This is wrong and Say it differently the reviewer can fill in Write it the way you want it: that suggested text is what you can later apply as written. The reviewer can also give the whole course a verdict with Approve or Request changes (on wider screens), and click it again to withdraw it. Their page refreshes every 30 seconds, so your replies and resolutions appear without reloading.

Back in the course editor, Feedback in the top bar carries a count of comments waiting for you, and opens Review feedback. In the Scenes editor the same inbox is Review in the top bar (or ⌘K → Review feedback). It sums up how many comments are to act on, how many approvals and how many questions, and groups comments by lesson (with Open lesson), by slide (Open slide) or as General. In the Scenes editor, Show slide on a comment selects its slide, and Show the text selects the text object a suggestion would replace. The most urgent kinds come first — factual errors, then missing content, then accessibility — oldest first within each. Resolved comments are hidden until you show them with the Show N resolved toggle.

Each comment shows the text it was written about, the reviewer's suggested wording if any, and replies. You can Reply (the reviewer sees your answer on their page, marked Author), Mark resolved, or Reopen. On a course restricted to assigned authors, only they and the workspace's owner and admins can reply, resolve or apply; everyone else can read the feedback.

New comments are also emailed, gathered up: about every half hour, once a reviewer has paused for ten minutes, each author gets one email listing the new comments on their courses with a link straight to Review feedback (in the Scenes editor for a Scenes course), however many comments there are. It goes to whoever created the review link, whoever created the course and its assigned authors (viewers are left out). Turn it off for a course in More → Settings → Notifications → Reviewer comments.

Every comment remembers what the block or slide said when it was written. If you edit the content afterwards, the comment says This has been edited since the comment was written; if you delete it, This content has been deleted. The reviewer sees the same note on their side, so nobody argues about text that is no longer there.

When a reviewer wrote the correct wording for This is wrong or Say it differently on a block, Apply as written replaces the block's text with theirs and resolves the comment in one step. It is offered only while the block still says what the reviewer saw: if the block has been edited since, apply the change by hand instead.

On a Scenes course a comment is attached to a slide rather than to one object, so Apply as written is offered when the slide's words are in a single text object: it replaces that object's text, resolves the comment, and shows the change at once in every open Scenes editor. When the slide has several text objects (or none), which one the reviewer meant is your call: make the edit by hand and Mark resolved.

A connected AI assistant can create review links, read the feedback, reply, resolve comments and apply suggestions through the same rules, with your permissions. See Connect your AI assistant.