Assessment Item Storage

[AaronHOWARD2]

My question is this, when starting a new term is there a way to hide previous blogs, quizzes, submissions from students without losing them and giving the kids a clean work space for the new tasks?

[james_whalley]

@AaronHOWARD2 Can you provide us a little more context for this question? Are you a K-12 instructor? Do your students utilize the same course space for multiple terms? Are enrollments for your course manually managed? Are you syncing your grades to an integrated application?

I just tried putting a student in two different sections in the same course (one for each term), assigning separate materials to each term, and then concluding one of the enrollments. The student was still able to see all of the Term 1 material in Term 2.

One option may be to not have Assignments, Pages, etc. open in the menu and to have students reach everything through Modules. You could then unpublish a module and have it act as an archive for the past term's materials.

[dbrace]

Hi @AaronHOWARD2,

Were you able to get this figured out or would you still like some help?

-Doug

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @AaronHOWARD2,

I think the most common strategy, though not necessarily the only one, is to start off with new Canvas course shells each semester.  You can import the content from previous semesters, but things like submissions will stay in the original term.  This tends to keep things organized and helps prevent accidental modification/deletion of assignments or other things that may count as course records.

-Chris