Unsubmit a student's work
Unsubmit returns a submission to the student who made it. Use it when a student has handed in the wrong file and needs the work back.
Prerequisites
Before you start, make sure:
The student has actually submitted. There is nothing to return otherwise.
You know which activity the submission belongs to. Submissions attach to the activity they were made from, not to the student generally.
Your account has teacher permissions on that course.
Three ways to reach a student's work
Unsubmit lives in the teacher view of a student's workspace, and there are three routes to it:
Marking
You are working through submissions for an assessed activity.
People
You are teaching live and watching the class code.
Student progress
You are checking work between lessons.
All three open the same view. The steps below take the Marking route, which is the one you will normally be on when you notice a wrong submission.
Return the work
Click Marking in the main navigation.
Click Continue Marking on the activity you are working through.
Click the row for the student who submitted the wrong work.
Click Go to IDE to open their workspace as they see it. Unsubmit is only available from this view, not from the marking list.
Click Unsubmit.
Click Exit to leave the student's code.
Check that it worked
The activity shows as outstanding again for that student in your marking list, and the student can submit a replacement file.
Tell the student you have returned it. Nothing prompts them, so a submission that quietly reappears as outstanding is easy for them to miss — particularly if the due date has passed.
Troubleshooting
They can, and often that is quicker. Kita accepts multiple submissions, and the most recent one is what you mark.
Unsubmit is worth using when you want the wrong work off your marking list, or when you would rather the student started again than added another file.
Unsubmit appears in the student's IDE view, not in the marking list. Open the student's row, then click Go to IDE.
If you are looking at your own copy of the lesson rather than the student's work, you will not see it.
Check you are in the right activity. Submissions attach to the activity they were made from, so work submitted to a different lesson appears under that lesson instead.
Then check the student is in the group enrolled on this course. See Enrol your class and share the group code.
If everyone has submitted something unexpected, the cause is usually the activity rather than the students — check the Expected filenames on the assessed activity and what the lesson instructions asked for.
Filenames do not block a submission, so a mismatch there does not stop work being accepted. See Create an assessed activity.
Need help?
If a submission will not return, or the student cannot submit again after you have unsubmitted, email hello@getkita.com with the course, the lesson, the activity, and the student's name.
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