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[blangston]

A student completed an assignment on time with a grade of 100%. However, the student went back to the assignment to review for the test and Canvas counted the second submission as late and deducted the points from the assignment that was submitted on time. This has been an ongoing issue. Is there a way to have an assignment be marked as review only so students can open and review an assignment and not be penalized? If I lock an assignment they can’t access it, if I remove late submission penalty then students will never learn to submit work on time without consequence. I think this would be a great feature. 

[chriscas]

Hi @blangston,

Can you give more details about what kind of assignment this is?  I'm a Canvas admin at my institution, and in the most common scenarios I can think of, students do not need to create a new submission just to go back and review the assignment.  Any additional info you can provide for clarification might really help someone give you a good answer for this.

-Chris

[blangston]

So this has happened in two different types of assignments. One is the quiz feature I used an assignment but isn't a quiz; I use it for self grading purposes all of my assignments and counted was homework/classwork. The other was an assignment with an external tool for the assignment. 

I would make a duplicate for review if it was easy to duplicate assignments without have to actually create it each time. Our district doesn't want our assignments with end dates on it. 

I really think that after the due date if there was a feature that would automatically make the assignment as view only after the due date. Also, I wish that Canvas would allow students on accomodations to get automatic extra days, that can be set at the start of the year. 

I use Derivita for my assignments in math, which is an external tool. The program's creator is a co-founder of Canvas and some of the features Derivita has would be so helpful in Canvas. 

Especially as a math teacher the options Derivita has is FAR better than Canvas.

[james_whalley]

@blangston, I ran into this problem as well in the past. Our best recommendation for professors was to make a practice quiz that contained all of the materials from previous assignments/quizzes that a student may want to review. I like your feature idea though and support you submitting it for consideration.

[paul_fynn]

In our institution our Assessment Workstream reviewed Canvas native operability against our institutional regulations and came up with an external solution (this was presented at Canvas Con as our 'End to End solution'.

Essentially the initial assignment is set with an 'available to' date corresponding to the due date. If the assignment is eligible for late work submission and the  students does not submit on time, this is detected by an internally built application which adds an 'available to' date of two working days later to those students who have not submitted.

Students who have already submitted cannot resubmit. If two files were required in the submission a partial submission cannot be remedied after the due date. Not all assignments are extensible (presentations, labs etc. are 'event' or 'scheduled' assessments that are spotted and excluded by our systems). There are further complications around quizzes that are quite involved.

You can see my colleague's presentation here: https://www.instructure.com/resources/videos/leveraging-lti-assessment-dashboard-enhanced-user-exper...

As a blunt approach you could individually simply make the available to date the same as the due date - however, as the work is late you also have an indication that the work should be capped or penalised, depending on your local regulations. 

[blangston]

I wasn't able to access the link you posted. 

[paul_fynn]

Hi - it should be a public link but you may need to be logged into Canvas or into the Instructure site to view ?

best

Paul