[ARCHIVED] Students' Ability to Save a Student Annotation Assignment

[pjarosz]

We are looking for a way for students to be able to work on their Student Annotation assignment and "Save" it without clicking "Submit" so that they can return to the page and finish their work.

Anyone found a solution for this?  Is this in the pipeline?

[MICHAELKAILUS]

It seems like this should be a high-priority feature to accommodate connection disruptions, at the very least. 

[cstrikwerda · Accepted solution]

Thanks for posting in the Community. Looking into this, the feature of Canvas students access when annotating documents would be the same tool instructors use. The tool is called DocViewer. I looked at the maximum session time that is allowed in DocViewer and was seeing some helpful information in the community here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Clarifications-needed-regarding-annotating-...

These are clarifications made for an instructor annotating a students submission, however the same would apply for a student annotating their own file in an annotation submission. The sessions in DocViewer should last for 10 hours... auto-saving any annotations you make via DocViewer.  Warnings will show up near the 10 hour mark to let you know that the "session" is going to expire.  This doesn't mean that any of the annotations/feedback you gave on a document up until that time will be lost, however.  It just means that after the 10 hour mark, you'd need to refresh your SpeedGrader screen again to start another 10-hour session.

As far as a saving feature to be able to go back and reopen an already existing file annotation- this is not a feature we have in Canvas right now. I would suggest to submit your idea as a potential update to annotation submission type assignments. Please feel free to submit that here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/idb-p/ideas