Can Instructors/Teaching Assistants make a Submission on behalf of a student?

quantumblink

In short, we have a separate internal system for tracking student's submissions, since we do programming assignments. Students are required to submit their work through our system and not through Canvas. However, we do have the actual grades posted within Canvas in the analogous assignment instance.

I would like to be able to upload a copy of a student's code to the appropriate assignment to provide more context for graders in SpeedGrader.

However, I am not sure if TAs or Instructors can make Submissions *on behalf of* a student.

dbrace

Hi @quantumblink

If you have not already, please review the three support article provided below:

1. What user roles and permissions are available in Canvas? - Instructure Community - 102
2. Canvas Course Role Permissions - Instructure Community - 387080
3. How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a student as an instructor? - Instructure Community - 560948

When reviewing the second article, if you do a "Find" using your web browser tools, you will see a section dedicated to "Submission - Submit on behalf of student".  In that section, you can see that by default the "teacher" and "ta" roles" do not have the ability to submit on behalf of a student.

This is a permission that can be changed by a Canvas admin.

I hope this helps.

-Doug