Collecting Artifacts to Share with the Office of Accreditation and Assessment

After the semester is complete, the Assessment Committee or program administrators will contact instructors/departments with directions to load their artifacts, or student submissions, to a designated online location per assessment committee guidelines.

Once again, if the instructor has used Canvas to create the assessments, downloading bulk artifacts is easy.

How to Bulk Download submissions From the Grade Center

If you want to download all student submissions for an assignment, you can download them from the Gradebook in a bulk download. All submissions are downloaded as a single ZIP file that you can use to grade submissions on your computer offline. If a student has resubmitted an assignment, only the most recent submission will be included in the ZIP file. You can also download assignments from the assignment page.

Bulk downloads can be used for the following submission types: file uploads, text entries (displayed as HTML files), website URLs (displayed as HTML files), and Google Docs submissions.

In bulk downloads, Canvas automatically amends the file name for each submission type:

• For group assignments, the file name will include the name of the assigned group.
• For individual student assignments, the file name will include the name of the student (last name first).
• When anonymous grading is enabled, student names are not included in the names of downloaded files.

Notes:

• After downloading student files, you can re-upload all student submissions in the Gradebook. However, you cannot change the names of the submission files. Otherwise Canvas will not be able to recognize the files that should be replaced.
• Students with concluded enrollments are not included in the submissions download.

1. As an instructor, navigate to the desired course.
2. Click on the "Grades" tab in the course navigation menu.
3. Locate the column for the submissions you wish to download.

4. Download Submissions

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5. Click the Download Submissions link.
6. When the file is finished processing, download the file by clicking the Click here to download link. Canvas will also include the size of the download file as part of the link for your reference.
7. To close the download window, click the Close icon.
8. Open ZIP File
9. Once the file has been downloaded, locate the ZIP file on your computer. To open the file, either double click to open it (Mac users) or right-click the file and select Extract All (PC users).