Access Feeback in Canvas
- Kriti Venkat
- Christine Sandella
Your instructor may choose to include comments directly in an assignment submission using inline comments, or annotations. If an assignment's submission details page includes a View Feedback button, you can view these annotated comments through a preview tool called Canvas DocViewer. You can also use Canvas DocViewer to reply to any comments or make your own annotations.
Important Notes:
Some browsers may not render comments correctly. Built-in PDF viewers may not display annotations properly, so download the file and open it in your system’s default PDF viewer (e.g., Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows, Preview on Mac) for full functionality.
If you submitted a group assignment but are not part of a group, instructor comments may not appear on the Submission Details page. Instead, you can view them on your Grades page or in the Submission Comments folder in your Inbox.
In Course Navigation, click the Grades link.
Click the title of an assignment.
Click the View Feedback link. If annotated comments have been added to a supported assignment, an indicator will appear on the link.
If the assignment attachment displays a Preview button instead of the View Feedback button, your file is not DocViewer compatible and will not include any annotated comments.
If the assignment layout looks different, Assignment Enhancements may not be enabled in your course, or your instructor may have used an unsupported assignment type. Learn how to view assignment feedback from your instructor using Assignment Enhancements.
View the annotated comments from your instructor [1].
To reply to a comment, click on the comment and click the Reply button [2].
If an annotated comment contains multiple lines of text, an ellipsis link will appear in the comment box. Click the ellipsis link [3] to expand and view the full comment.
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].
You can also use DocViewer to make your annotations on your assignment.
To download a PDF of the submission and annotations, click the Download icon.
Note: If you download the PDF files to view the annotations on your computer, Adobe Acrobat Reader is a common tool used for this purpose.