Download all Assignment submissions to single file, for single student

[kendall_moore]

Hello,

Long time user of Canvas, first time poster here (I think? or it has been a long time)

Is it possible to do the following actions:

1. Select specific student or students from the gradebook
2. Bulk download all / selected range of multiple assignment submissions (preferably into one file as text)

The result would be say, one file with 10 submissions in it, in one file.

So far, All i have been able to do is bulk download all student submissions for one assignment, and they are all in individual files.

Thank you for any help or workarounds for this. I have several assignments that I run a code check on the students submissions from another program.

[greydon]

Hello @kendall_moore 

As of now, the student submissions downloads will generate a downloaded zip file with the individual file submissions inside. There isn't really a way to select specific student submissions, bulk download a handful of them and have them all listed out in one comprehensive viewable file like a really long pdf. Although, there have been others looking for the same thing:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/API-Download-all-assignment-submissions/t...

There is a chance in the future that this feature will be more customizable, but currently the way you have been doing it is realistically your most viable option. Not the ideal answer you were looking for, but hopefully provides some clarity. 

[gmitchell]

Hi,

I had this problem as well today. My workaround involved using Adobe Acrobat Pro, which has a feature "Combine Files". Adobe also provides this for free online: Merge PDFs Online For Free | Adobe Acrobat (Australia)

I hope that this helps anyone else who searches on this problem.

G.

[doldham1]

I see 2 different ideas here:

1. Download multiple assignments for a single student (or group of students).
2. Download multiple submissions into a single file.

The 2 replies above address #2. I'm interested in #1. That's what brought me here.

I don't mind if they're in separate files--in fact, I think I'd prefer that. But I want to be able to select 1 student and download all their submissions at once, or--even better--select from among their submissions.

I'm guessing that's not possible but I figured I'd check.

(Merging files is a relatively simple matter once they're downloaded, in Word, LibreOffice, etc. But I don't think that was the OP's main intent.)