Is there an easy way to bulk print assignment submissions?

Sherry.L.540

Submissions for assignments can be bulk downloaded, but they default to a zip file with individual folders for each student. Each folder must be opened. I'm trying to find an efficient way to download, for printing, all submissions. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Stephen.R.50

Hello @Sherry.L.540, thanks for your question!

This is possible by modifying a config variable, specifically d2l.Tools.Dropbox.FilenameFormatUser for Individual Assignments and d2l.Tools.Dropbox.FilenameFormatGroup for Group Assignments. It's not necessary to adjust both, but I wanted to make sure you're aware there are two!

The default value is normally {firstName} {lastName} - {submissionDate}\{filename} and the \ before filename is what will cause the exported submissions to be placed in individual folders or sub-directories.

While testing, I modified this string to {firstName} {lastName} - {submissionDate} {filename} (just removed the backslash) which then exported Assignment submissions without their sub-directories.

You could either update the instance value, which will update it for all of your Course Offerings, or you can add individual overrides for specific courses/departments/etc.

Hope that this helps!
~Stephen