Student editing

[MCherryDHS]

Is there a way for a student to edit or unsubmit an assignment after they have turned it in, without redoing the whole thing? 

It appears that if I reassign it because it was incomplete, it makes them redo the whole assignment. Or at the very least they need to cut and paste what they have into the new attempt. 

For instance I assigned something in Canvas that required a text response they did half of it and hit submit. now it is making them redo the whole thing unless we are missing the edit feature. 

[SusanNiemeyer · Accepted solution]

Hi @MCherryDHS 

As the instructor, when you open up an assignment to two or more "attempts," you will be able to see all of the work submitted by an individual student. Therefore, you can certainly consider the content from each submission attempt when you assign a grade in SpeedGrader. My suggest would be to simply tell an individual student that he or she only needs to submit the missing work on the second attempt.

[SusanNiemeyer · Accepted solution]

Hi @MCherryDHS 

As the instructor, when you open up an assignment to two or more "attempts," you will be able to see all of the work submitted by an individual student. Therefore, you can certainly consider the content from each submission attempt when you assign a grade in SpeedGrader. My suggest would be to simply tell an individual student that he or she only needs to submit the missing work on the second attempt.

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @MCherryDHS,

As @SusanNiemeyer's reply indicated, students can't really go back and edit their previous submissions (which is probably a good thing in many scenarios).  If it was just a textbox submission assignment, you could either just take the multiple submissions into account when grading yourself (you'd have to select each one in SpeedGrader to see the different content), or you could direct the student to copy/paste their first submission into the second one and finish it up (this would be my preferred approach).  if it was a file submission, they'd likely still have the file on their computer and could just continue and upload a new copy easily, but it doesn't quite sound like that's how this assignment is set up.

Hope this helps!

-Chris