Canvas Groupset Issue - All students seeing students assignment submissions

[TaylorWheeler]

I have a professor reaching out to me regarding her doctoral students canvas page for this summer. She has all her dissertation students in one class, but only a select group of them need to submit an assignment. She has put the students that need to submit the assignment into a group and when they upload their assignments, they're all able to see each others submissions. I instructed her to delete the group and see if that fixes the problem, but she said that the other students will be confused. I'm unsure of how to resolve this issue. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated

[SusanNiemeyer · Accepted solution]

When Canvas created "groups," they really should have used the term "teams" instead. In Canvas, a "group" means a team of students working collaboratively together. Group assignments are meant to be shared projects.

It's actually very easy for an instructor to create an assignment for only a few students. All she needs to do is create the assignment. Then in the "assign to" box with dates, she should replace "everyone" with the names of the individual students. 

By doing so, only those students will see the assignment. The rest of the class won't see the assignment at all. Also, those students given the extra assignment won't see the names of the others who have been assigned it as well. 

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @TaylorWheeler ...

I agree with @SusanNiemeyer on this.  In case you would like to have these as a reference, here are some written Guides for you to look at:

• How do I assign an assignment to everyone in a course?
• How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course section?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course group?

Hope this info will help a bit.  Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!