Monday, June 29, 2015

New Excuse an Assignment in Canvas

Instructure Released a new Canvas feature Saturday (6/27) and teachers now have the ability to excuse an assignment!

Excuse an Assignment
To excuse an assignment for a student, enter the value of ‘EX’ in the corresponding Gradebook cell. The Gradebook will reflect that the assignment is excused for the student. Excused assignments are not included in the calculation for a student’s total grade.

Students can also be excused from a Group Assignment; the other members of the group will still be able to view and submit the assignment.
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Note: Currently, the Gradebook only accepts a standard Canvas-wide value of ‘EX’ for assignment exemptions. In phase two of this feature, instructors will be able to choose from a list of statuses for the excused assignment or for a graded assignment, such as late, missing, absent, etc.

When students have been excused from an assignment, they can view the excused status on the assignment submission page, or when they view the grades page. Students who are excused from an assignment will not be able to submit the assignment, though they can still view the assignment details. Excused-Submission-Assignment.png