How do I give individual students extra attempts at an assignment?

[meezankaren]

It is before the assignment due date, and one student accidentally submitted a partly completed assignment. I would like to give this one student an extra submission on the assignment, but I don't want to give the whole class two submissions. How do I do this?

[KristinL · Accepted solution]

Hi - This post's original date was 2015, but I've noticed some newer activity. 

I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify what's available in Canvas. Like Stefanie shared, Canvas has implemented a "reassign" feature that is detailed in  How do I reassign an assignment in SpeedGrader?. There are a few limitations, and those are outlined in the light blue box at the top of the page. This will work as long as assignment attempts aren't restricted such that the student has already reached the maximum number set on the assignment.

So, yes, you can limit the number of attempts. However, whichever number you choose for the assignment applies to all students. How do I limit submission attempts for an assignment? 

With this, there's the need for being able to add attempts on a student-per-student basis. There is an Idea open for this. I hope those who would like to see the feature developed would add to the conversation and rate (star) the Idea:  per-user-reattempts for assignments - Instructure Community  

How do idea conversations work in the Instructure Community? 

[kona]

 @meezankaren ​, if you're talking about regular file submission assignments, then by default the students can submit as many times as they want until the Assignment closes. There is no way to prevent this. if you're talking about a quiz then that's different and you can use the Moderate quiz function to allow an extra attempt.

Hope this helps!

[meezankaren]

Ah, I did not know that! Does Speed Grader then group a single student's submissions together, or otherwise note that they have made multiple submissions?

[awilliams]

It sure does. It's up in the top right, here's a quick video:

[samantha_cruz]

This does not seem to be true anymore. You can limit the amount of submissions for all the students in the class, but I want to be able to let just one student have another attempt because they made a mistake.

[Stef_retired]

This is a fairly old post, @samantha_cruz . Since then, Canvas has implemented a "reassign" feature that is detailed in  How do I reassign an assignment in SpeedGrader? , with caveats as noted in the blue information box in the lesson.  This will work as long as assignment attempts aren't restricted such that the student has already reached the maximum number set on the assignment.

[samantha_cruz]

Ok, so is it possible to change the number of attempts allowed for just one student, though. I don't want other students to have multiple attempts, just one of them. 

[Stef_retired]

The "reassign" option does not work if attempts are restricted in the assignment settings and the student has exhausted all allowed attempts. When that's the case, the teacher needs to create a separate assignment for that one student using the differentiated assignments functionality. 

[MMat]

This has got to be a joke.  The solution, for every question on this thread can not be that canvas can't do it! Solution!  Your problem is not really a problem Mr. Professor, you are just running your class incorrectly.  All students should be allowed unlimited submissions for file submittals, it can't be done any other way.

Funny, because blackboard eCampus could do it, with no issues.  In fact eCampus could do pretty much every single thing I have looked up on this help site and been told over and over again that Canvas can not do it.  I am apparently thinking incorrectly on every single topic I look up and need to change my ways of managing my class and my data.

This thread is marked has having a solution.  This is not a solution, it is a denial of the base root problem; the Canvas platform / program is not setup for mass data management and control.  It does not meet the core requirement of what LMS systems are used for in today's large university environment.  End of statement.

[tfilipiak1]

No.  Quite wrong.  I would like to offer an attempt to one student because he submitted a final project that has one attempt.  He messed it up enough that it would kill his grade in the course.

I completely disagree.  Blackboard and other LMS allow this easily.  Canvas just isn't that advanced.  It's shameful.  

[bigelow]

Another example of CANVAS having no clue how academia works.

[MMat]

You and I are speaking the same language.  Canvas does not understand how all the inconsistencies make this program a constant headache.  Make a special assignment for 1 student, yeah because I have 10 students and that is all I am affected by.  My 400 students don't seem to understand this line of thinking.

[Heterochromatic]

HEY CANVAS this is the third time I have needed to allow ONE student an additional attempt at an ASSIGNMENT (not a quiz) and there seems to be no way to do it if you limit the submissions for the whole class. The student currently has to email me the assignment, then I have to take screenshots, grade on separate screenshots each page on my iPad, and then send each page back to the student. Cumbersome, to put it mildy. PLease fix this. CHeers.

[KristinL · Accepted solution]

Hi - This post's original date was 2015, but I've noticed some newer activity. 

I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify what's available in Canvas. Like Stefanie shared, Canvas has implemented a "reassign" feature that is detailed in  How do I reassign an assignment in SpeedGrader?. There are a few limitations, and those are outlined in the light blue box at the top of the page. This will work as long as assignment attempts aren't restricted such that the student has already reached the maximum number set on the assignment.

So, yes, you can limit the number of attempts. However, whichever number you choose for the assignment applies to all students. How do I limit submission attempts for an assignment? 

With this, there's the need for being able to add attempts on a student-per-student basis. There is an Idea open for this. I hope those who would like to see the feature developed would add to the conversation and rate (star) the Idea:  per-user-reattempts for assignments - Instructure Community  

How do idea conversations work in the Instructure Community? 

[Heterochromatic]

HAS THIS BEEN SOLVED YET? My grading life has been a nightmare for years now without this feature. Made worse because canvas is sooooo picky about the files it accepts. This pdf, made on a PC using microscoft something or other YES. This pdf made on an ipad NO. And no chance for individual students to change the format and upload another attempt. It is hell. I am begging canvas, PLEASE fix it. Add a "moderate this assignment" button like for quizzes and allow me to go in and change parameters for individual students. PLEEEEEEEEEASE.

[PatrickCollier]

This! I do not understand why Instructure chose to design assignments and quizzes differently. There absolutely needs to be a moderate assignment that mirrors the moderate quiz option. Please look into this Canvas team!

[tfilipiak1]

This does not answer the question....How does one allow students to have extra attempts but limit the attempts of other students?  This is incredibly simple to add to the system but just like so many other issues (like extra credit, etc.), Canvas isn't interested in actually doing the work that we need as instructors.

[jessgrieser · Accepted solution]

This is not solved; it's just not possible.
There is a really simple solution here, Canvas! "Reassign" should work regardless of the number of attempts otherwise allowed. Because if "reassign" has been hit, *obviously* an instructor with grading ability has chosen for whatever reason, to instruct this particular student to turn in the assignment again. It's elegant, easy and probably not all that difficult to implement.

[PatrickCollier]

I manage an entire online program for my university and this is a huge issue that needs a better solution. Canvas has been a nightmare to use for our program because the program was not designed to allow exceptions to the normal submission model for students in a course.

[joe_greene]

Canvas doesn't actually fix things that the vast majority of users want/need. They just give us a bunch of monthly updates/upgrades that are mostly irrelevant to how any academic institution actually functions. Something like this issue, that's been asked for by users since 2015, obviously isn't that important to them.