One of my students said in class today that unpublished material is visible to him

I gave a test today and one student said that he could see when logged in to his student canvas account unpublished material including the test's answer key. I told him to take and send me a screen shot. I just double checked and he is enrolled as Student and in student view I don't see my unpublished material. What could be going wrong? Thanks.

--Dilip

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NoahBoswell

Hey @DilipBarman ,

Thanks for posting on the Instructure Community!

Is this student by chance an admin of the account that your course is associated with? If so, regardless of what role he is enrolled with, canvas will override the role he has in the course with the admin role permissions he has. I know this isn't a typical reason, but I have certainly heard of students with admin roles in certain sub-accounts for various reasons.

Another possible reason would be... is he by chance enrolled as a student now, but in his prior enrollments a teacher/ta/designer? If so, even if he is enrolled as a student currently, if he has a concluded role in another section (or even the same section), he will still see everything as a teacher would.

Hope this helps and of course please respond with any additional questions or comments!

Best,
Noah

DilipBarman

Thanks. No he's always - this year and last year - been a student.

DilipBarman

Oops, it doesn't look like my reply went through. It's a free canvas K12 account that I administer. If I remove him and re-add him, will he still have access to all that he did before like his assignments? I can ask him tomorrow but don't believe he can publish/unpublish. Thanks!

sharon_kitching

What is the answer key in? A file? Gradescope?

DilipBarman

Thanks. I submitted the help text below via the Help button. @sharon_kitching , the answer key is in a hidden page as below.

My help button submission:

Hi - I have a student who has been in my class the whole school year (Jonas O'Brien in my Prealgebra class here at https://k12.instructure.com/courses/815975/modules ) and suddenly he told me yesterday that he can see unpublished material. I checked and he is a student and not a teacher, TA, or anything else. I went into student view and all looks fine. What could be going wrong? Thanks.

dspiel

Where is it the student is seeing the file? Just a guess, but Files is in the open area for viewing and it is published within a Module which also makes it viewable as a file.

DilipBarman

@dspiel, I don't see it under files. I left a message but haven't heard back from the student's family yet.

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