Learn how to download Canvas submissions for accreditation reporting.

Before you start

• You must be a Stevens faculty or staff member.

How to Download Assignment Submissions in Canvas

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Step 1: Open the course from which you would like to download submissions.

If the course is no longer in your Dashboard, complete Steps 2 through 5. Otherwise, go to Step 6.

Step 2: Select Courses in the Canvas navigation bar.

Step 3: Select All Courses.

Step 4: Scroll down or use Find to find the course. 

Step 5: Select the course name to open the course.

Step 6: To download one Assignment submission at a time, open the Assignment for which you would like to download a student submission(s).

Step 7: Click on SpeedGrader. 

Step 8: Find the student whose submission you would like to download by clicking on the down arrow next to the name of the first student whose assignment opens. 

Step 9: Select the target student’s name from the dropdown.

Step 10: The target student’s assignment submission opens. 

Step 11: Click on the down arrow to the right of the assignment submission name, under Submitted Files. 

Step 12: The submission downloads.

There are two ways to download all submissions for an Assignment:

• Download all submissions from the Assignment
• Download all submissions from Gradebook

Download all submissions from the Assignment

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Step 1: To download all submissions from the Assignment, open the Assignment for which you would like to download a student submission(s).

Step 2: Click on Download Submissions.

Step 3: A pop-up appears, informing you that your submissions are being gathered. 

Step 4: When the download is complete, the pop-up message notifies you that the download is finished.

 

Step 5: Access the downloaded submissions from the zip file.

Download all submissions from Gradebook

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Step 1: To download all submissions from Gradebook, go to the Gradebook and click the three dots to the right of the Assignment name. 

Step 2: Select Download Submissions.

Step 3: A pop-up appears, informing you that your submissions are being gathered. 

Step 4: When the download is complete, the pop-up message notifies you that the download is finished.

Step 5: Access the downloaded submissions from the zip file.

How to Download Quiz Question Results in Canvas

Step 1: Open the course from which you would like to download question results. 

If the course is no longer in your Dashboard, complete Steps 2 through 5. Otherwise, go to Step 6.

Step 2: Select Courses in the Canvas navigation bar.

Step 3: Select All Courses.

Step 4: Scroll down or use Find to find the course. 

Step 5: Select the course name to open the course.

Step 6: Open the Quiz for which you would like to download results.

Step 7: Select Quiz Statistics

Step 8: Select Student Analytics

Step 9: A csv file containing all quiz questions and student responses downloads.

How to Download Assignment Comments and Rubrics in Canvas

There are two ways to download assignment comments in Canvas:

• Take a screen shot of the assignment comments or
• If you are using a PC (not a Mac), use a Firefox browser** to create a pdf of the assignment comments.

** Note that the second method works only with Firefox browser on a Windows machine; it does not work on Mac machines, nor on Windows machines using other browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc.).

Take a screen shot of the assignment comments

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Step 1: Open the course from which you would like to download assignment comments.

If the course is no longer in your Dashboard, select Courses in the Canvas navigation bar, and follow the instructions above to find your course.

Step 2: Open the Assignment for which you would like to download comments

Step 3: Click on SpeedGrader.

Step 4: Find the student whose assignment rubric and/or submission comments you would like to download by clicking on the down arrow next to the name of the first student whose assignment opens.

Step 5: Select the target student’s name from the dropdown.

Step 6: The target student’s assignment submission opens.

Step 7: Grab and drag the divider bar between the assignment and the assessment area to make the assessment (comments and rubric) area as wide as the screen

Step 8: Take a screen shot of the assignment comments and/or rubric and save to your device. You may need to take multiple screen shots to capture all of the content.

Using Firefox browser on a Windows PC to create a pdf of the assignment comments

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If you are using a Firefox browser on a Windows PC, you can create a pdf of the assignment comments by following these steps:

Step 1: In a Firefox browser, follow Steps 1-5 above. 

Step 2: Select Print from the menu in the upper right hand corner.

Step 3: Select Print to PDF as the Printer

Step 4: Adjust the Scale of the image so that the entire rubric and/or all comments fit on one page. For example, you might try changing the Scale to 50%.

Step 5: Select Print

Step 6: Select a folder and give the file a filename. Ensure that Save type as is set to PDF Document (*.pdf).

Step 7: Select Save. The image of the course comments, rubric, etc. is now saved on your device as a PDF file.

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