Students would like to be able to see the assigned date and due date when in calendar view. Previously an assignment showed up on the calendar from the day it was assigned until it was due and now it only appears on the due date. A toggle that allows students to pick between showing the entire assigned date range or just the date due on the calendar view would be helpful. Only showing the due date could lead to procrastination as students don't realize that a larger assignment is coming up and they should actively be working on it.

Hi Folks -

With the change to the new assignment experience, we anticipate that there will be some growing pains as students adapt to the new workflows and look.

With that said, we have a couple items queued to be worked on in the near future:

The filter pane toggle (Open vs Closed) will be 'sticky'.

• This should help reduce some of the visual clutter that the filter pane displays when first launching the page. Now the filters will be housed in the device's browser cache and will remain closed so long as that browser cache remains intact.

The name of the 'Major' filter will be changed to 'Only display Major assignments'.

• This should better represent what the filter is doing when selected.

Clicking on the Status of a Task will launch the Task edit modal

• This will ensure a similar workflow can be followed when changing the status of a task and an assignment.

An optional setting will be introduced to allow teachers to mark whether or not an assignment receives the 'Overdue' status once the due date/time has passed.

• This should save both teachers and students time by not having to manually change the status of assignments that the teacher is not collecting. We heard both students and teachers were being overwhelmed by the number of assignments that were displaying in the Overdue buckets, especially for assignments that acted more as 'Reminders' or 'Tasks' rather than things the student actually had to hand in.

In the list view, the assignment Assigned date/time will be an optional display.

• Displaying the Assigned Date/Time in the calendar view is a little tricky given the amount of space we get in each event tile. We'll be investigating optionally displaying assignments based on Assigned Date/Time, rather than Due Date/Time, in the future for the calendar view.

There are also some defects that we have queued to be resolved in the next couple of weeks. Be on the lookout in our 'What's New' communications to see when these enhancements and defect fixes go into our live environments.

In the meantime, if you are hearing any specific feedback from students about pain points they're experience, feel free send those directly to me at michael.morrissette@blackbaud.com

We'll be making updates to this module over the next couple of months and are very interested in seeing how we can better assist students in their assignment workflow.

-Mike