Test Student submission still there after Resetting Student View

[Rrez]

Hi, I am a learning designer using Student View to test out the functionality of a course I am building. I have made several submissions while in Student View (discussion posts etc.) and noticing that these submissions do not disappear after resetting Student View. I talked to the Help line and they informed me it is expected behavior. Is that true? It does not seem logical. 

We instruct our faculty to use Student View to test out their course design before releasing their students and this behavior with the Student View submissions living on regardless of resetting is unexpected (we are switching to Canvas from Blackboard.)

What further makes this difficult is that when a Test Student (or a "real" student) submission is deleted, the submission is marked as "deleted by XYZ instructor", so it seems really cumbersome to remove the traces of activity made while trying things out (duplicating and deleting the original activity is the only workaround I've found).

Is this really how this is designed? Are we perhaps missing a setting in the LMS?

Thanks for any insight!

[masantos · Accepted solution]

Hello @Rrez,

I agree that discussion posts from Student View should also be removed when resetting. I recommend submitting an idea. Once voting begins with ideas, we can vote to make this change.

-MaryAnn

[Rrez]

Thanks for the suggestion! I have submitted the idea here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/Reset-Student-View-Activity-in-Discussions/idi-p/606...

[shawnski]

The response you got in this submitted idea was:

"Hi Rrez - Thank you for taking the time to share this as an idea in the Instructure Community! After collaborating with the Product Team, we can share that this behavior has been identified as a bug, and the request does not need to follow the full idea process. " by KristenL 

Sorry, but I don't see how that's a valid response. It's a bug. So then what? It won't be addressed? I tried a quiz as Test Student and now I can't unpublish that quiz because the Test Student submissions cannot be reset or deleted. Sorry, but this is ridiculous. As you mention in your inquiry here, the point of Test Student is to: test... as a student... Then, after testing, there is absolutely zero reason to keep that activity around, especially as viewable to students!! What benefit could there possibly be for students to view a Test Student response??? 

[Chris_Hofer]

@shawnski ...

Since Instructure is aware of this issue as a bug, it should be on their list of things to squash.  Since I do not work for Instructure, I do not know of their exact timeline on when they might get this resolved.  I can point you to their Known Issues - Instructure Community page here in the Community.  I am not sure if this particular issue is on their Known Issues page, but you might want to bookmark this page just in case.  Also, you can follow the Release Notes and Deploy Notes for further updates.