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12/23/19


Assignment Enhancements: Student (Beta)

Improvements to the student assignment experience is available in the beta environment.

10/17/20

Assignment Enhancements - Student is generally available for all Canvas accounts in the production environment.

02/12/25

External Tools are now supported.

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Assignment Enhancements feature development is ongoing. For the latest updates, view the Change Log link in the sidebar.

Fixed bugs for Assignment Enhancements are included in Known Issues.

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With Assignment Enhancements enabled, there is now no easy way for a student to download the original file(s) they submitted. Only a rendered/annotated PDF can be downloaded. Please add a simple link that lets students download the original files the...

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In the assignment enhancements document overview it states that external tools are supported but when I create an assignment with external tool, I see classic student view. I thought it may because the external tool assignments had been created earli...

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I'm working with Assignment Enhancements in Beta so I don't know if this is the case in Production, but I notice some wonky things when acting as a student where File Upload is chosen as the assignment's submission type. 1) The selection buttons are ...

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@jsailor: When commenting on an assignment, it seems the student gets the link to the old detail page (before the enhancement). The link the student gets: https://canvas.vub.be/courses/.../assignments/.../submissions/...The link I believe the student...

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When assignment enhancements are turned on students lose the ability to view the Turnitin similarity report on the student assignment feedback page. Adding this score would be beneficial to the students. And it is available with the enhancements turn...

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With the Assignment Enhancement Feature on, it seems as though it is much more difficult to access the document that a student has submitted from the grades page. This has caused some confusion and frustration for some of our students and teachers. W...

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We have had a few students reports in the last 36 hours of students being UNABLE to upload assignments with the assignment enhancements interface. The UPLOAD, and drop&drag/browse buttons do not respond. Weirdly, the "MORE' button does respond. When ...

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Curious as to how many of you have Assignment Enhancements on by default at your school? Plans to do this for Jan 2022? We are new to Canvas and I'm trying to decide what is the best course of action for these new features. Thanks

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I have Assignment Enhancements active in my classes, and in the past week or so documents submitted through Google Drive (both the old one and new LTI 1.3 since our school has both active) do not load in Speed Grader. With the old Google Drive app, ...

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Hello - will this project be addressing the notable issue with draft/ unsubmitted instructor comments? To quote myself: "I'll go out on a limb here to suggest that all have an issue with draft comments; i.e. unsubmitted instructor feedback. I make th...

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I know according to a recent release that External Tools are now hidden: External tool (LTI) submissions are better supported in Assignment Enhancements. Additionally, the placement of the External Tool buttons have been adjusted. Instead of displayi...

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When Assignment Enhancements is turned off and you click on Media recordings, the first thing you see is Record Media. Upload is on the second tab. When Assignment Enhancements is turned on, the first tab in the new window is Upload Media. Would it ...

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With the new upgrade to speed grader, a feature that existed in the previous version was modified. In the old speed grader, if a student submitted multiple versions of an assignment, the teacher could make a comment on each assignment submission. Whe...

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Coming Soon to Production The product and engineering teams continue to work hard on Assignment Enhancements for Students. The following items are now available in your beta environment and scheduled to be available for all in production with our Oct...

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I love the reassign assignment feature, but was wondering if when we put requirements on our modules (like must follow the assignments in order, etc), do these reassigned assignments prevent learners from moving forward within their work in the modul...

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I'm struggling to know when to turn on this tool for our school. We are new to Canvas and will be using it in full production in Jan 2022 - is it best to turn it on and lock it down at the start of 2022 so that all students and instructors have the s...

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When accessing assignments from the to-do area on the dashboard, the old workflow loads. When will this be updated?

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when a student accesses work and feedback via the grades area the old interface loads for assignments and feedback loads. When will the grades area include the newly updated assignment and feedback enhancements?

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I'm currently testing the new assignment enhancements workflow, but when I submit as one of my colleagues (who are also admins) who I've set as a student on the course, the old submission workflow loads. When will the enhancements be available across...

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On the enhanced assignment submission page: If I've restricted submission types to only allow pdf's, why would webcam and studio still display to the student as options--you know, in that line of buttons along with dropbox, files, etc.? alf

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In this video update, I showcase recently deployed items: Move of module progression buttonsFile upload options as buttonsSupport of webcam capture I also share what the team is working on now: Clear action for student commentingSupport of group assi...

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Could you please clarify this statement in the timeline. Does this mean student enhancements will become an enforced feature?  10/17/20 - Assignment Enhancements - Student is generally available for all Canvas accounts in the production environment.

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Since my last post, we've continued to make great progress on the updates to Assignment Enhancements for Students. Recent updates are detailed below.  Submission type selection updated from dropdown to icons for each option.  Improved UI for list of...

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Looking to discuss this feature from the 2021-06-09 Deploy Notes? Post a reply and start a conversation! POSTING GUIDELINES This topic is for feature discussion only—please share use cases, best practices, etc. regarding this featurePlease thread rep...

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Hi!  I've just seen the latest round of developments for this weeks deploy update (26/05/21). The icons look great, but I was wondering if any additional thought had been given to the spacing of attached files? It takes up quite a bit of screen spac...

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I used to get notifications from Canvas, but ever since I started using the Mail App (blue with white envelope in the middle) on my Mac, I stopped getting notifications. I stopped using the Mail App, but I still don't get any notifications. Any sugge...

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Looking to discuss this feature from the 2021-05-26 Deploy Notes? Post a reply and start a conversation! POSTING GUIDELINES This topic is for feature discussion only—please share use cases, best practices, etc. regarding this featurePlease thread rep...

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Looking to discuss this feature from the 2021-05-26 Deploy Notes? Post a reply and start a conversation! POSTING GUIDELINES This topic is for feature discussion only—please share use cases, best practices, etc. regarding this featurePlease thread rep...

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Over the past few months, we've been busy updating the experience in the new submission workflow afforded users when the Assignment Enhancements - Student feature option is enabled. We are well overdue on providing an update so hold on to your seats ...

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Hi! I've just logged in to Beta and have taken a look at the changes you have made to assignment enhancements. I haven't seen these advertised anywhere, or maybe I've missed something? We originally turned the new assignment enhancements off and fed ...

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