Big picture - I want to build a bot to respond to my students on SHORT_ANSWER_QUESTION assignments -- I'm running into a couple of hurtles, but the biggest at this time is that there doesn't seem to be a way to give a comment along with a grade.
Does anyone know how to patch a comment or response of some sort to a student's submission?
Relevant documentation: https://developers.google.com/classroom/reference/rest/v1/courses.courseWork.studentSubmissions
currently there is no way to directly do this in the studentSubmisson context. There's the option to Grade student responses, but this only allows for numeric values.
There already is a Feature Request filed on Issue Tracker related to this issue. You can find it here. I suggest upvoting it to give it more visibility.