Add ungraded bucket to the Submissions API.

[howderek]

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The Assignments API has a very useful ?bucket=ungraded option that returns only assignments that have ungraded submissions in them.

It would be incredibly helpful for a similar option to exist in the Submissions API, so that only ungraded submissions are returned, in order to prevent having to make multiple paginated API requests and search through all the submissions to find only the ungraded ones.

Example of how it would look:

GET /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:assignment_id/submissions?bucket=ungraded

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[biray]

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[garth]

Being able to download specific groups of submissions is also useful for accreditation purposes, for those wanting to collect or archive artifacts associated with outcomes, providing evidence associated with reporting.

If you look at this beyond just ungraded work, there are many use cases where downloading multiple submissions in a single call would be very useful.

The problem I see with this function is the amount of time it might take to bundle or zip all associated files.

This would likely prevent a simple API call that returned immediately.

However, if the API call could be made to request the specific group of submissions, Canvas could send a notification with a link to the zip file when it is ready.

[biray]

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[Renee_Carney]

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[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-09-17)

[garth]

Wow it only took two votes to get this done, I'm jealous!

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to howderek for submitting this idea, as well as,  @garth  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the Canvas!

[hakan_jonsson]

Really good that this now has been included in Canvas but how come this suggestion didn't require 100 supporting votes from the community like other suggestions?

[Renee_Carney]

Hi  @hakan_jonsson ​

That is a great question.

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