Submission of Assignment to the wrong place

[serina_teo]

A student has submitted her assignment to the wrong assignment thread (via Turnitin).  She was not able to delete it from her end.  In fact she has made double submission, 1 to the correct thread and 1 to the wrong thread.  However, it did not affect her similarity  %.    

1. As the teacher, am i able to delete it from the wrong thread?   

2. If not, will it affect anything if i just leave it there? 

Appreciate any guidance in this area.  

[Renee_Carney · Accepted solution]

 @serina_teo  

It won't hurt it at all if the submission is left in the wrong assignment.  The student should be able to resubmit to that assignment when the correct time comes.

because deleting isn't a current function you can take a look at a feature idea submitted by a fellow community member and add your use case and vote to it if you like.

https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/4394-delete-submissions-by-students 

[serina_teo]

Hi thanks for the response!

Cheers

Serina

[sgerdes]

Yes, I can tell the student to do copy and paste his assignment, and I probably will.OR I'll override the system and just give him a grade with the comment that I read the assignment in another place. But my students are third graders and Canvas is new, and the copying and pasting takes time and parent help and explaining, and it's cumbersome to families who are just trying to manage during this CoVID Quarantine. Many are not techy. I hate to ask them to resubmit when [sometimes] it was MY error in the first place (such as when an example Assignment was left published and then the student opened it and posted his answers on it). In one situation, the students were looking at a paper where they had written letter answers (A, B, C, etc.) and then typed their answers into the Canvas assignment for submission. (We're new at this and not doing everything in most "Canvas-slick" ways, and our district hadn't used Canvas before CoVid...as least many of us hadn't.) So errors get made.

Bottom line: Being able to quickly transfer students' answers into the correct assignment would be SO helpful! And being able to unpublish an assignment students weren't supposed to use but did would also be incredibly helpful. Hope that makes sense! 🙂 Thank-you!