What your copy holds
The extension sees that you teach the course and saves what you made:
- Files in their folders, pages, assignments with their descriptions and rubrics, and announcements.
- Quizzes with their questions.
- Discussions with their prompts.
- The syllabus, the modules in order, and a calendar file with every deadline (
Deadlines.ics). - An overview page,
Open me, that opens in any browser without internet.
Students' work, when you need it
Turn on Include students' work in the settings, for example for an archive your school requires. Then the copy also holds every student's submission with all attempts, the gradebook and roster, quiz results, rubric scores and comments.
It's off until you turn it on, so a copy you share or keep for years doesn't hold student data by accident. The receipt always says whether students' work is in the copy.
Canvas's own course package
Optionally, your copy can bring the .imscc course package Canvas builds for importing a course again, saved next to the readable copy. It's off by default. Canvas makes this package on its servers, lists it under the course's Settings › Export Course Content, where your co-teachers can see it, and keeps it there for 30 days.
The package is a Common Cartridge file, a standard format. Moodle, Brightspace and Blackboard can import Common Cartridge too, though how much of a course comes across differs per system, so try one course before moving many.
Many courses at once
On your Canvas dashboard, Download courses lists current and past courses by term. Tick as many as you like; they save one after the other in their own tab, each with its own receipt.
A note for IT and privacy staff
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- No server: the extension runs in the browser and talks only to your Canvas, with the teacher's own login. No API token, no account.
- Nothing is sent to the developer. No analytics or tracking in the extension.
- Files are saved to the computer's Downloads folder, or a folder the user picks.
- It writes nothing to Canvas, except the course package above, which only a teacher can start.
- The code is open source under the MIT license, and the privacy policy lists every permission and why it's needed.
Questions? Open an issue on GitHub; it's read by the person who wrote the code.