Canvas export limits
Canvas export does not always keep the comments students mean.
When students ask whether Canvas export includes comments, they usually mean the human parts: submission comments, instructor feedback, TA notes, rubric feedback, discussion replies, and the page where those words appeared.
Short answer: if your goal is a readable personal archive, use CanDownloader before access expires. It saves visible Canvas pages and the comments, feedback, rubrics, discussions, files, and links around them where available.
Why official export can feel wrong
Canvas Course Export, IMSCC, ePub, and PDF workflows can be useful for specific jobs. But many students are not trying to re-import a course into another system. They are trying to keep the course as they experienced it: pages, conversations, feedback, files, links, and context.
What CanDownloader is for
- Saving the Canvas assignment page with visible submission comments and feedback context.
- Keeping discussion threads, replies, and posts readable later.
- Preserving visible rubric details, instructor feedback, professor comments, and TA notes.
- Saving files, linked pages, linked downloads, announcements, modules, and page context.
- Recording blocked or missing pages in a local report.
What it is not
CanDownloader is not an official Canvas export, not an LMS migration package, and not a recovery service after access is gone. It helps you save the Canvas pages your own student account can still open.
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Keep the page, not just the package.
CanDownloader creates a personal offline archive of Canvas courses you can still access.