Viewing Assignment Feedback

Instructors can leave feedback for your assignments in three ways:

  • Overall submission comments
  • Comments left within a rubric
  • In-line comments on the document itself

Note: there is not visual indicator for in-line comments, to view them, you must open the assignment and scroll to the bottom of the page.

To view this feedback:

  1. Access your course.
  2. Click the Grades link.
    Grades link highlighted in a Canvas course.
     
  3. All of your course assignments will be listed here and show:
    • Assignment Name
    • Due date
    • Date of submission
    • Status (Late, Missing)
    • Score (if posted)
    • Feedback icons (if posted)
       
  4. If Submission comments have been added, you will see a message icon with the number of comments. Click it to view overall comments.
    Screenshot of the Canvas Grades page, showing an assignment with feedback. The show feedback button is highlighted.
     
  5. ​​​​If there is a rubric attached to the assignment, you will see a Clipboard icon. Click it to view the rubric. Any comments added to the rubric will display under each criterion.
    Screenshot of the Canvas Grades page, showing an assignment with feedback. The rubric button is highlighted.
     
  6. To view any in-line comments, click the Assignment name and scroll down to the bottom of the page to view your submission.
    View Annotated Comments
    • View the annotated comments from your instructor [1].

    • To reply to a comment, click on the comment and click the Reply button [2].

    • When an annotated comment includes multiple content lines, the content box displays an ellipses link. To expand a comment, click the ellipses link [3].

    • To view stacked replies, click the comment to expand all replies [4].

    • To view comments in an expanded view, click the Full Screen icon [5].

  7. To download a copy of the file with annotations, click the Download button.
    Screenshot of the toolbar when viewing your assignment submission in Canvas. The download button is highighted.

 

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