Saving Canvas Content

Canvas data storage is managed by a regular cycle of course deletion. Two times per year, we remove academic courses that have been in the system for five years.

Spring courses – removed the third week of April
Fall & Summer courses – removed the fourth week of October

Multiple notifications will be posted each semester before any course deletions.

Students, who wish to preserve submitted work should visit the following page for directions: How do I download assignment submissions from my courses? and How do I view annotation feedback comments from my instructor directly in my assignment submission?

Students and faculty can save work on their computers or in their UNCW OneDrive accounts. For help with OneDrive, please visit: How do I Install OneDrive and Sync Files?

Below are a number of options for faculty to preserve some, or all, of your course content.

email lms@uncw.edu with any questions

Course Export:

If you think you may need the content in the future but you don't currently need the course content, run a course export. You will receive an email once the course export is ready to download. Download and save the file in a safe location. Student work is not included in course exports. Your UNCW OneDrive is a good place for storage. Here is more information on OneDrive.

Request a Dev Shell:

This is an option for content you know you will want to reuse in an upcoming semester. Once a dev shell has been created you can import the course content into the dev shell by following these instructions.

Gradebook Export:

This produces a copy of your Gradebook that can be downloaded as csv file. This does not include submitted work or comments. Here are the steps for downloading comments as a PDF.

Downloading Student Work:

You can bulk download individual student submissions for an assignment. Group assignments will include the name of the assigned group. Students must have an active enrollment in the course in order to download their assignment submissions.

Downloading Quiz Results:

Student work may be needed for accreditation or research purposes. Run a Student Analysis Report from the Quiz Statistics page for a csv file of each student who took the quiz, the answers they submitted, and their final scores.

Downloading Discussions:

Canvas currently does not offer a tool to export discussions, however; you may save this data by opening a discussion, right-clicking on the discussion page and selecting Print. In the print dialogue window select Print to PDF.