[ARCHIVED] Open answer key after student submits assignment online

[ajevremovic]

My students are submitting assignments online whether it's a screenshot showing they finished in another program or a pdf of a worksheet.  I would like each student to then be able to see an answer key so they can check their own work.  How do  I do this?  I've seen ways to do it as a whole class but students are working at their own pace.

[kona · Accepted solution]

Greetings! How you do this depends on how you have your course modules set up. If this assignment and the answer key were the only things in the module, then you could add a 'requirement' for this assignment to be submitted and then check the box to require students to move through the content in order. That would make it so students would need to submit to the assignment before they would be able to access the study guide. 

If the assignment isn't the only thing in the module and you don't want students to have to go through the module in order, then you would still make the assignment 'required' to submit, but then you'd put the study guide in a separate module and apply a pre-requisite that the previous module (with the required assignment) had to be done before students could access the answer key module. 

Here is the guide that explains how to set up module requirements --  How do I add requirements to a module? - Canvas Community

And here is the guide that explains how to set up module pre-requisites -  How do I add prerequisites to a module? - Canvas Community

Hope this helps! Kona

[rwoolfrey]

Hello, I am trying to help a teacher in a similar situation. She has organized her modules by weeks. Then within each week, she uses headers to divide them into days. Under each day, she has a Daily Question (assignment available to complete within 24hr period), a Homework set (assignment), and solutions to the assignment (page).  This repeats for the other days of the week, within the same module. 

She would like the solutions only to be available after the homework set submission, but she doesn't want to force the students to move through the weekly module in order because that creates issues when someone is absent or if they were to do the daily question after the homework set. 

I explored Kona's solution in the second paragraph, but it seems like this won't work for this teacher how she currently organizes her modules by week. She would need to switch to daily modules, correct?

I wondered if there was any other way she could set something up to provide the answer key after assignment submission. I looked for a way to trigger a message or some other response after the assignment was submitted, but I didn't see anything like that.  

If she were to create the solutions as an "assignment" she could control when it was available (allowing it to only appear after the assignment submission window closed), but that wouldn't provide instant feedback for the student.

Any other ideas?