However, if you prefer, you can disable this feature setting in your user settings. If enabled in your account, Canvas plays a celebration animation when you submit an assignment on time.This conversion essentially preserves the submission in its current state any changes made to the file in Google Drive will not be updated in the submission. When Google Drive files (docs, sheets, and slides) are uploaded as a submission, the files convert to their Microsoft counterpart file types and appear in the submission as respective Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files.In Google Drive assignments, you can only submit one file for your submission.Otherwise, you must enable Google Drive as a web service in your user profile to upload Google Drive files. If your course displays a link to your Google Drive in the Course Navigation Menu, your course has enabled Google Drive directly.If the Google Drive tab is not available in your submission, your institution has not enabled this feature.You can also upload any uploaded Word (.doc/.docx), Excel (.xls/.xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt/.pptx), and PDF files not converted to Google Docs formatting.

Unlike other assignment submissions, files from Google Drive are not uploaded into your Canvas user files.Ĭanvas accepts Google Doc, Google Sheet, and Google Slide files. That is all.If your institution has enabled Google Drive as a submission type, you can upload a file from Google Drive for an assignment. There is this page of developer guide for Google Drive but not useful as it is. In terms of documentation, the only relevant guide I found was this dated blog post circa 2014. The URL address for other products such as Google Sheets, Google Presentation or even Google Drive would be slightly different.

I have tried myself and the output looks something like this: $ wget Both methods will download the document as text file as expected. Then, downloading the document from Google Docs as text file is straightforward by using wget or a web browser.

FILE_ID is string ID of target file and.

You can download from Google Docs in any supported format, by using the existing parameters in the URL address. No need to pipe to other program to convert the file.

.gdoc converter