how to delete a student submission

[JimKerns]

I was wondering how you delete a submitted assignment by a student.  The student submitted the assignment in the wrong place and I am unable to delete this assignment.

Any answers????

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @JimKerns,

Generally Canvas is designed to keep almost all data around, which can be good for reporting and other things, but bad for a situation like this.  The student can usually just resubmit a new attempt with the right work to fix up most things.  If they submitted a doc with confidential info, your school's admin team may be able to delete the file from the original submission (but the submission record itself would remain).

-Chris

[jhansen11]

My student accientally submitted a confidential Team assessment to the Group project (by mistake). Now, her negative feedback is visible to her team members, and neither she nor I can remove that submission. As instructor, I should to be able to at least "move" a submission. Perhaps also the student ought to be able to Preview their submission (with a preview mode that shows the Assignment name and a portion of the paper contents) before submitting it. Geez. I will contact my OIT to ask them to remove the submission. 

[gutow]

This is a serious problem that makes an LMS much worse than working with paper. If instructors cannot undo student (or instructor) mistakes that potentially violate legal protections we have a problem. Fix this! Instructors should be able to delete files without having to do extra work or add to the typically excessive burden of typical school LMS administrators. Keeping a history of what was done and by whom is a good idea, but making it difficult to remove erroneous or confidential uploads is a really bad idea. I am stuck with students having access to other students' work who should not.

[SusanNiemeyer]

These steps will not work to delete just one student's submission. Once a student has submitted an assignment, it's in Canvas permanently.

[LizHenry]

Those steps did work for me as well. Our faculty would like to see Canvas add the feature to delete student submissions. If that isn't possible please add a feature that would allow the Teacher of a course to allow an additional attempt for only one student.

[SEI]

I think there is a way to allow an additional attempt for only one student. When you edit the assignment, select "Assign to." It will let you reassign the same assignment to a particular section, student, or students. ( I would like the ability to delete erroneous uploads, though.)