Text missing

[HEATHERWEST-ROJ]

Does Canvas auto-save a student's work? A few of my students reported that there work from the previous day that had not yet been submitted has disappeared. Is there a way to recover it?

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @HEATHERWEST-ROJ,

I found this unanswered question while doing a community cleanup.

As far as I know, the Canvas rich content editor has supported auto-save since 2020 (New Rich Content Editor: Auto Save (2020-03-21 Rel... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)).  If it's a file upload submission and not a text editor one, I believe the answer would depend on whether your school/institution ahs enabled the assignment enhancements feature option.  With the option enabled, uploads should save in a draft state until the students hit the submit button.  If that feature is off, uploads would be lost if not submitted within a few minutes.

Hope this helps a bit!

-Chris