How do I upload a student's assignment submission to a Canvas assignment when it was sent to me via email?
Hello @john_morris - in brief, there is a Submit for Student button within the Grades interface. This is a feature that your institution would need to have enabled. See here:
How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a student as an instructor? - Instructure Community
The full list of guides are available here: https://community.instructure.com/en/kb/canvas-lms-instructor-guide
Ahh, it appears my institution has enabled this feature. I thought I'd seen it once upon a time, but it is gone now. Thanks!
Make sure you are a teacher on the course, admin access alone isn't enough.
Perhaps simply require the assignment be submitted in Canvas and don't accept email attachments. Better for logging audits that way, and for future assignments they'll need to learn the proper process. It's pretty straightforward. If it's a file size issue. then have them share a file link to wherever they have it saved on cloud storage like OneDrive.
Thanks @adam_c_voyton , that's my standard practice. And there are always exceptions. This was one of them.
I discovered the solution. Because I encounter that some students are challenged by the way Canvas displays tabs on assignments, I had configured the assignment with only the "Text Entry" online entry option. When I changed that to "File Uploads" the Submit for Student link appeared in the Gradebook and I was able to capture the emailed submission in the course site.
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