This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 2/28/24.
Description
When a student submits a txt/rtf file to an assignment, Teachers are not able to annotate the submission in Speedgrader, and instead it displays the message "Annotations are not available for this document".
Expected Behavior
Users should be able to annotate these file types.
Workaround
No workaround exists at this time.
Steps to Reproduce
Prerequisites: Have a published course with students and teacher enrolled.
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Create an assignment set to file upload
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Publish the assignment
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As a student submit to the assignment with either a .txt or .rtf file
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As a teacher go to Speedgrader
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Notice the message displayed
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Once the page has loaded notice that no annotation tools are available
Additional Info
CAS-1746
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