[ARCHIVED] Can students view old submission details?

[msl_adm]

All,

Maybe I'm missing something, but as I see it now, students cannot see details / feedback on older versions of an assignment submission.  Consider the following test case:

1) Test Student - submit assignment

2) Instructor - grade assignment

3) Test Student - can see grade and feedback.

4) Test Student - resubmit assignment - can no longer see the old submission (either on Assignment page or Grades)

5) Instructor - grade new submission

6) Test Student - can see grade and feedback on most recent only.

This seems odd.  Why can't the student see the older versions of their assignment?  It would make sense to me to allow the students to see the "progression" of their work.

Am I missing something?  I searched the boards but could not find anything...

-- Matt

[kona · Accepted solution]

msl_adm​, unfortunately, no, you are not missing anything.

For more information see the following archived feature idea - - with this response from Instructure "Thank you so much for the additional information each of you provided for Jason and his team.  They are working to prioritize this idea, however it is not possible within the next 6 months.  We will be archiving this idea, but don't forget to bookmark or follow it to receive updates."

Since  you can't vote on this feature right now, my recommendation is to comment on it and include why it is an important feature that is needed in Canvas.

[msl_adm]

Thanks  @kona ​.  I'll look into that.  Can't believe they don't see this as a priority.

[kona]

I totally have to agree with you. :smileycry:

[johnsons6]

This is an important feature because students often mistakenly submit several documents for the same assignment as separate submissions, rather than uploading documents at the same time. For example, my students often upload a worksheet with typed answers and then separately upload their statistical calculations that accompany those answers. Feedback needs to be given in both places, but they can't see the feedback on both documents because Canvas treats one as an older document and doesn't give them access to it. No matter how often we teach students how to do these uploads, they make mistakes. It's not worth our (instructors') time to try and re-teach a mini-course on how to upload documents to Canvas over and over again. We need to be teaching them the content. Either make it easier for them to figure out how to upload multiple documents at once (this must not be simple because a HUGE number of them don't figure it out), or make it so we can put feedback on older documents and they can see the feedback.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @johnsons6 ...

I'm not sure if your school's local Canvas administrator or someone from your school's Online Learning/eLearning department has enabled this yet, but there is something called "Assignment Enhancements" for students that has an updated interface for submitting work to instructors.  Part of this new interface allows students to view past submissions of an assignment.  This is detailed in the first linked Guide and a little bit (at least some screen shots) in the second link I'll provide for you:

• How do I know when my assignment has been submitte... - Instructure Community
• How do I view assignment feedback from my instruct... - Instructure Community

If you are unsure if "Assignment Enhancements" has been enabled for your school's Canvas environment, you will want to have that discussion with your school's Canvas admin.  They should be able to help you with this.  They may have a plan as to when they will be turning this on for you and the other instructors at your school...if it isn't turned on already.

I hope this will be of some help to you.  Please let Community members know if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

[jsimoneau]

In the K-12 environment, this is a very important feature to add. Students frequently need to be referred back to the original feedback to resubmit the work.  Instructor needs to regrade and repeat the feedback.

[RobertStone]

It's 2021 and this feature is still not added.  As a teacher I can't even see my own previous notes to compare the documents, so I sometimes can't tell what the student did to improve the submitted paper because I can't compare the old document to the new one, nor can I refer to my own notations on the document to know what I told them to fix.  Is there any kind of ETA for when this will be added.  Seems like a glaring error not to implement this.