Student Access to Feedback/Annotations in Submission History

[davidmccall]

As a professor, I am able to view the submission history of students (i.e., they submit multiple attempts). However, students are not able to view their previous submissions or any of the feedback I leave on those submissions. This seems counterintuitive to the learning cycle. 

For example, if a student submits an assignment (attempt 1). I provide feedback through annotations on that submission. Once the student resubmits (attempt 2), they no longer can view my feedback (annotations) from attempt 1. This is very frustrating for both students and teachers. 

Students should be allowed to go back and see the feedback on every submission that they have attempted, just like I can as the teacher. 

[rmartini · Accepted solution]

Hi @davidmccall ! Have you confirmed if you have the feature option called "Assignment Enhancements - Students" enabled in your course site? If not, you might talk with your Canvas administrator about seeing if that could be enabled for you. We don't have that feature option turned on by default but instructors have the option of turning it on in their individual courses. If it's on, students are able to view feedback on both attempts. I just did a quick test of this and was able to confirm that behavior (though I did notice that the rubric seems to be the same for both attempts--which makes some sense but means you won't be able to provide different rubric assessments for each attempt; if rubric feedback is important, I'd try to separate it into two assignments).