How do I delete a comment I made on an assignment in response to my teacher? I am a student.

I recently had an assignment where my teacher gave me a good comment. I replied back saying "Thank You!" but I would now like to delete my comment. Is there any way to do so? Thanks in advance!

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kona

@jham18 , I did a little testing and it looks like students are not able to delete comments. If you'd really like the comment to be deleted, you can contact your Instructor and your Instructor has the ability to delete comments.

Hope this helps!

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kona

Hope this helps!

jhveem

UPDATE: THIS SOLUTION NO LONGER WORKS

After some testing, it appears Canvas has revoked the right for students to delete or edit comments using the API. I've tried both PUT and DELETE for /api/v1/courses/*/assignments/*/submissions/*/comments and I've tried DELETE for the internal api /submission_comments/* that is used by speedgrader. Neither work when acting as a student. If someone wants to continue fiddling with the original solution, I'll leave it here.

OLD COMMENT

While it's true Canvas hasn't created an interface for deleting comments, students DO have the access rights to delete comments, they're just missing a button to do it. If you are a student and would like to delete a comment without reaching out to your teacher, here are the steps you should follow.

1. Open Canvas in Chrome and navigate to the submission page where you can see your comment you'd like to delete.

2. Open the Chrome console (ctrl + shift + i)

3. Paste this code into the console and run it (press enter)

$.delete = function (url, data) {
return $.ajax({
url: url,
data: data,
type: 'DELETE'
});
}
$(".comment_list div.comment").each(function() {
let el = $(this);
let id = el.attr("id");
if (id !== undefined) {
let userName = el.find(".author_name").text().trim();
if (userName == ENV.current_user.display_name.trim()) {
console.log(userName);
let commentId = id.replace("submission_comment_", "");
console.log(commentId);
el.css("position", "relative");
let button = $(`x`);
button.click(function() {
let url = `/api/v1${window.location.pathname}/comments/${commentId}`
$.delete(url);
el.remove();
});

el.append(button);
}
}
});

4. Click the X that appears by your comment.

update 10/26/2023 - fixed an issue where it doesn't show the x on some assignments.

If it still doesn't show up, you can try this. It strips out the check to see if the comment is written by you. This means you'll get an x on every comment, but only the ones written by you will work. The rest will throw an error.

$.delete = function (url, data) {
return $.ajax({
url: url,
data: data,
type: 'DELETE'
});
}
$(".comment_list div.comment").each(function() {
let el = $(this);
let id = el.attr("id");
if (id !== undefined) {

let commentId = id.replace("submission_comment_", "");
console.log(commentId);
el.css("position", "relative");
let button = $(`<span style="position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0; color: #888;">x</span>`);
button.click(function() {
let url = `/api/v1${window.location.pathname}/comments/${commentId}`
$.delete(url);
el.remove();
});

el.append(button);
}
});

GGRRT

It didnt work for me can u help?

GGRRT

im trying to delete this comment. its a file by the way

clg13

i'm not sure there's a way to delete a file like that. I'd need more context to try to help.

clg13

the file would have to be attached to a particular comment i think, so figure out which comment it is and then delete it.

clg13

per my first post: This version doesn't give you an X, it just deletes.

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