Bulk Download of TURNITIN Assignments, Error

[rgp]

Presently if you grade a Turnitin assignment within Canvas, it is not possible to do a bulk download of the graded assignments.  This is useful, among other things, for documenting the course for yourself or for accreditation agencies such as ABET.  Worse, what happens is that a screen "this may take a while" appears but nothing ever happens.  Until all bulk downloads are possible, rather than "hanging" Canvas should return and informative error message such as "Sorry, for turnitin assignments, it is only possible to do bulk downloads of the original assignment as submitted."  And, bulk downloads of this kind should be enabled.

[Renee_Carney]

 @rgp  

Have you checked with your local admin to see if it is possible to do this type of download by logging into Turnitin directly?  Since this is not something that is done all the time, this might be a good option for records retention?

[lindalee]

See the archived feature idea https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/5807" modifiedtitle="true" title="Enable bulk download and upl....

[rgp]

Thanks for providing this information.  In my own experience, I tried a bulk download, it did not work and I contacted Canvas help.  I asked very clearly if there was a work-around.  It seems that there a work-around has been known for a year and a half, at least.  This was not provided by Canvas help, nor was there an "error" message made available by Canvas. If it is too hard to provide a bulk download feature directly within Canvas, I am happy to scale back my suggestion to "since bulk download does not work for turnitin assignments in Canvas, provide information on the work-around through Turnitin preferably automatically but definitely through Canvas help.

[dhulsey]

 @rgp ‌, you can bulk download from the Turnitin assignment inbox (assuming you are using the LTI version of Turnitin in Canvas). Of course, if you want the graded files, you will need to do your grading in Turnitin instead of Canvas. Is that what you are looking for

[rgp]

At the moment, I just want people who quite naturally, if naively, as I the first time I did it, get told "sorry, we can not do that, here are the work-arounds."  Or, at least they get told that when they call canvas, without having to post suggestions for improvements.

[ProductPanda]

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