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Technology specialist asking on behalf of a teacher.
Is there a way to export Canvas submission comments? By assignment? By student? Teacher is hoping to review all comments before writing narrative progress report and not having to go to every assignment and find the student.
Not through the UI, however, you can get all submission comments by using GraphQL (Available at https://YOURSCHOOL.instructure.com/graphiql)
The following query will return all comments for all submissions in a course
query MyQuery {
course(id: "Enter_Course_ID_here") {
submissionsConnection {
nodes {
assignment {
name
}
commentsConnection(filter: {allComments: true}) {
nodes {
comment
}
}
enteredGrade
user {
name
}
}
}
}
}
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