Raider Print Pack

A bulk-print tool for Canvas. It puts every student's work on an assignment or New Quiz into one PDF, one student per page, ready to print as one job or grade on screen. Everything runs in your browser. Student work never leaves your computer.

New Quiz essaysCanvas has no built-in way to print New Quiz essay answers or save them as a PDF. This is how you get them onto paper, or into one PDF to grade.
Uploaded papersInstead of opening each student's file and printing it one at a time, download every submission at once, drop it here, and print the whole stack.

How this works — three steps

Get the file from Canvas

One click in the quiz or assignment

Drop it here

Straight from your Downloads folder

Click Print

Everyone's work prints as one job

STEP 1 Get the file from Canvas

Which kind of assignment are you printing? Pick one and follow the pictures.

Open the quiz in Canvas

Go to your course, then Quizzes or Assignments, and click the quiz. New Quizzes have a rocket icon. The quiz opens with a row of tabs across the top: Build, Settings, Moderate, Reports, Exports.

Click the quiz's name. The rocket icon means it's a New Quiz.
Click Reports, then Generate Report under Student Analysis

Click the Reports tab (1). In the Student Analysis box, click Generate Report (2). Wait a few seconds until the date under “Data Last Updated” changes to right now. That makes sure every student who has finished is included.

The Reports tab of a New Quiz. Ignore the other boxes.
Click Export CSV

In the same Student Analysis box, click Export CSV (3). A file called student_analysis.csv lands in your Downloads folder. You don't need to open it. Come back to this page.

STEP 2 Drop the file here

Drag the file from your Downloads folder onto the box, or click the box and choose it.

Drop student_analysis.csv or the .zip here

or click to choose it from Downloads

Grade anonymously Each student gets a random paper number instead of a name, and the papers print in number order. A separate name key matches numbers to students. Print double-sided On unless you uncheck it. Each student starts on a fresh sheet, so nobody's work prints on the back of someone else's. Uncheck for single-sided. Put the student's name (or paper number) at the top of every page so loose pages find their way home Group students by class period (New Quizzes only)

Within a few seconds every student appears in the list below, with how many pages each one will take. Check that nobody is missing. Print by hand means that one file needs to be printed on its own.

Example of the student list after dropping a file: six students, each with an essay word count, a page count, and the status Added. — Example: what the list looks like when it's ready (made-up names). Your real list appears in the box below.

Student	What's printed	Pages	Status
Your students will be listed here after you drop the file.

STEP 3 Print

Click Print. Your printer window opens with every student's work in it. Pick your printer and click Print.

Double-sided is on. In the printer window, make sure Two-sided (sometimes called Print on both sides) is turned on. In Chrome it's under More settings. Want single-sided? Uncheck Print double-sided in Step 2 first, so there are no blank backs.

Four printed pages: each student's essay starts on its own page with their name, class period and the question at the top, and their name repeated in small print on every page. — What comes out of the printer: each student starts on a new page, with their name on every page.

Good to know

New Quizzes: only essay question answers are printed. Multiple choice and other question types are left out. If a quiz has more than one essay, each answer is labeled with its question number (Question 2, Question 5…), in quiz order, one after another under that student's name.
Assignments: Word documents, PDFs, photos, and text typed into Canvas all print. Anything else (a Pages file, a Google link, a video) is listed as Print by hand so nobody gets missed.
Pictures that students pasted inside a New Quiz essay don't come through. The writing does.
Double-sided: when a student's work ends on the front of a sheet, the back is left blank so the next student starts fresh. That's why you may see a few blank pages in the printer window.
Grading anonymously: Print Pack replaces the names it adds (the heading and the label on every page) with paper numbers. It can't remove a name a student typed into their own work, like the first line of a Word document. Ask students to leave their names off, or flip through before you hand papers out.
Word documents are redrawn in your browser, so a font you don't have may look slightly different. The words and page order are the same.

STEP 1 Get the file from Canvas

STEP 2 Drop the file here

STEP 3 Print

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