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.
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