Disable/disallow students from being able to submit an attachment through graded comments
Has a feature been requested by faculty to have Canvas disable/disallow students from being able to submit an attachment through graded comments?
I have occasionally had students do this. I just tell them that they must submit the assignment correctly in order for me to grade it.
Good afternoon, @GloriaGuerra ...
I think I have found an existing Feature Idea here in the Canvas Community that might be similar to what you are asking for. You can find it at:
Disable file attachments in comments for assignment submissions
If you feel that this Feature Idea is similar to something you'd like to see implemented in Canvas, you can leave a comment on that Feature Idea as well as give it a star rating. (More about the star rating system at How do idea conversations work in the Instructure Community?.) Please know that this isn't the only way that Instructure gets feedback from us as end users of the LMS on what things should be developed in Canvas. That is covered in the section called "Discover" on What is the feature development process for Instructure products?.
Hopefully these resources will be of some help to you. In the meantime, I agree with the suggestion from @SusanNiemeyer.
Let us know if you have any other questions about this...thanks!
Still no action taken that I can see. I'm left getting inundated with comments like this "This was pretty fun to do. A nice break." along with comments including questions, request to grade easily because "I really struggled with this" and files being attached to comments. Too many un-actionable comments to sort through to find the students that are trying to ask for help. I post instructions in my syllabi and in the instructions on each assignment to use my official university email to contact me if questions or problems arise while working and not to ask for help in comment sections and also that no work is accepted for grading via comment section posts... students don't read or don't understand what that means.
This may only affect large enrollment courses that have limited staffing, but this is a huge issue for me. I spend the majority of my work time searching through hundreds of comments to find legitimate questions/pleas for help every day or replying to angry emails from students that feel they are being ignored because they posted comments that didn't get replied to even though I've specified that I won't so they need to email me. I would love to be able to devote this time to developing course materials and interacting with students or to helping TAs develop their abilities.
We've had settings to disable comments on announcement for a long time. Please add the same option for comments on quizzes and on assignments.
Among all the things that I wish Canvas had is that one! Is it something that is been worked on? We had it in Blackboard (legacy) and I sorely miss and need in Canvas (we just transitioned to it from Bb). Please add this very needed feature!
I have Canvas set to drop the lowest quiz score, however, my students can only barely tell that the grade text is slightly grey when dropped. Can it have a tag like the "missing" and "exempt" ones in the student gradebook?
My Canvas shell has three different sections that all meet at different times throughout the week. I need to be able to batch edit assignment due dates by section, but right now Canvas can't filter by section for batch edit. My only option is now to manually (tediously) edit due dates for each assignment individually.
Morning! One of the more frustrating aspects of Canvas are groups and the issues that show up when copying courses that have them. But now we have yet another issue. Most recently we have had instances where people mark an assignment/discussion as a group assignment but then do not link the discussion or assignment to any…
So, we have encountered a few assignments where the Speedgrader presents the teacher with the "Empty Course" page, even though the course is not empty. I have discovered two New Quizzes in the same course where this has occurred, despite multiple students being assigned (at Module level, which passes the permission down to…
