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title: Add comments to an assessment
description: In SAE, add comments and work notes to an assessment to clarify questions or other aspects of the assessment. Owners, contributors, readers, and administrators can add comments while the assessment is active. After the assessment is cancelled, existing comments and work notes remain visible but read-only.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/governance-risk-compliance/smart-assessment-engine/adding-comments-to-assessments.html
release: australia
product: Smart Assessment Engine
classification: smart-assessment-engine
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Respond to assessments, Manage, Smart Assessment Engine, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
---

# Add comments to an assessment

In SAE, add comments and work notes to an assessment to clarify questions or other aspects of the assessment. Owners, contributors, readers, and administrators can add comments while the assessment is active. After the assessment is cancelled, existing comments and work notes remain visible but read-only.

## Before you begin

-   To post a work note, your user account must also have one of the roles configured in the **Worknotes roles** field on the template category.
-   Role required: sn\_smart\_asmt.actor, sn\_smart\_asmt.assessment\_admin, or sn\_smart\_asmt.assessment\_reader.

## About this task

**Note:** This task describes how to add comments at the assessment level. To comment on a specific question instead, see [Add a comment or work note to a question](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/smart-assessment-engine/add-comment-to-question.md).

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to your workspace and then to your list of assessments.

    Here’s an example of how to navigate to this list in the Compliance Workspace.

    1.  Navigate to **All** > **Policy and Compliance** > **Compliance Workspace**.
    2.  Select the tasks icon \[Omitted image "list-icon.png"\] Alt text:.
    3.  Select the **Control attestations** > **Smart Assessments** on the left panel.
    4.  The smart assessments list is displayed.
2.  Open the assessment to which you want to add a comment.

3.  From the contextual sidebar, select the **Comment** icon \[Omitted image "adding-comments.png"\] Alt text:.

4.  Provide your comment in the **Comment** field.

5.  Select **Post Comments**.

    The comment appears in the comment list.


## Result

The comment or work note appears in the comment list and is visible to all participants on the assessment.