I have a student (13-14 year old) who submitted something other than the assigned work for an assignment that will be auto-assigned Peer Reviews in less than a week.
How do I mark their submission as "not to be reviewed by peers"? This isn't something their classmates should see.
Here are three ways you can accomplish this and one that doesn't; there may be others.
One way is to have the student resubmit the assignment, or get someone who can "act as" the student to resubmit the assignment. When a student goes in to do a peer review, they only see the last submission made by the person they're reviewing. The teacher, through SpeedGrader, can see all of the submissions, but the student just gets the last one. You don't have to give the student credit for it (I know you'll explain that), but it would hide what the person said.
Do nothing before the peer reviews are assigned. After the peer reviews are automatically assigned, you could quickly go in and remove that student from anyone who got them and assign them a different student. If each person is only getting one peer review, then this is relatively quick to fix --- take the person who the one student got assigned and give it to the person who received the one student's submission --- but if there are multiple peer reviews assigned, it becomes more challenging. If peer reviews are set to automatically assign themselves at a particular time, remove that and manually trigger the automatic assignment. That way you can get it taken care of before the students start completing the peer reviews.
Use differentiated assignments to assign it to everyone but the one student. This is a nightmare as there isn't an "everyone but" option. There is an "everyone else", but you cannot assign it to the one student, choose everyone else, and then remove the one student (the everyone else reverts back to everyone). What you need to do is manually assign it to everyone but this student. If you have 20 students in the class, put 19 names in the list. When I did this, the student did not show up in the page to assign peer reviews. I manually clicked on the automatically assign peer reviews (as opposed to having Canvas do it at a certain time) and it assigned to all those who were eligible (everyone except for the ones student). I then went back in and removed the list of students who were assigned it and made it due for everyone. The one student did not receive anyone to peer review and their submission was not assigned to anyone either. I attempted to check having Canvas automatically assign peer reviews at pre-ordained moment, but this did not assign any for me -- perhaps because I was in the beta instance or because I didn't give it long enough (3 minutes)?
Giving the student an "excused" for a grade does not work. They still get included in the the list assigned peer reviews and their submission is used for others to peer review. Even though it doesn't work, I mention it just in case it was something that someone was considering.
It's disappointing that Canvas doesn't have a suitable built-in way to deal with problematic student work submissions. Thank you for the work-arounds.
I kind of like that they don't have a way to do this. It keeps students from claiming the instructor did something nefarious to my submission. The same thing goes with integrations. People who can masquerade cannot act as a user and get into their Google Drive through Canvas.I like those safeguards. It kind of bothers me that Canvas is going to start letting teachers submit assignments for students.
I don't want a way to remove the submission entirely - I want a clear chain of logged events in case there are any questions, so removing or editing the assignment wouldn't work well.
I do, however, want a way to remove problematic things from the view of other students without deleting them from Canvas for teachers or administrators. That way, a record is stored in the system in case of any disputes, but other students don't see the misbehavior. That's why I'd like a way to mark a student submission as not to be assigned out for peer review without having to get support to delete the submission or over-writing the submission with a new one myself using "act as user". I want the submission to stay in the form submitted by the student (particularly if it's the kind of inappropriate where it's going to result in a meeting with parents and/or administrators), just not be queued up for other students to see. (Similarly, I'd like to be able to hide rather than edit or delete discussion posts from students in a similar situation. I want the record, but I don't want the messages to hang around for their classmates.)
Linnea,
Here are three ways you can accomplish this and one that doesn't; there may be others.
One way is to have the student resubmit the assignment, or get someone who can "act as" the student to resubmit the assignment. When a student goes in to do a peer review, they only see the last submission made by the person they're reviewing. The teacher, through SpeedGrader, can see all of the submissions, but the student just gets the last one. You don't have to give the student credit for it (I know you'll explain that), but it would hide what the person said.
Do nothing before the peer reviews are assigned. After the peer reviews are automatically assigned, you could quickly go in and remove that student from anyone who got them and assign them a different student. If each person is only getting one peer review, then this is relatively quick to fix --- take the person who the one student got assigned and give it to the person who received the one student's submission --- but if there are multiple peer reviews assigned, it becomes more challenging. If peer reviews are set to automatically assign themselves at a particular time, remove that and manually trigger the automatic assignment. That way you can get it taken care of before the students start completing the peer reviews.
Use differentiated assignments to assign it to everyone but the one student. This is a nightmare as there isn't an "everyone but" option. There is an "everyone else", but you cannot assign it to the one student, choose everyone else, and then remove the one student (the everyone else reverts back to everyone). What you need to do is manually assign it to everyone but this student. If you have 20 students in the class, put 19 names in the list. When I did this, the student did not show up in the page to assign peer reviews. I manually clicked on the automatically assign peer reviews (as opposed to having Canvas do it at a certain time) and it assigned to all those who were eligible (everyone except for the ones student). I then went back in and removed the list of students who were assigned it and made it due for everyone. The one student did not receive anyone to peer review and their submission was not assigned to anyone either. I attempted to check having Canvas automatically assign peer reviews at pre-ordained moment, but this did not assign any for me -- perhaps because I was in the beta instance or because I didn't give it long enough (3 minutes)?
Giving the student an "excused" for a grade does not work. They still get included in the the list assigned peer reviews and their submission is used for others to peer review. Even though it doesn't work, I mention it just in case it was something that someone was considering.