Prevent assignments that are not added to the grade book from appearing overdue

Teachers have created assignments which are not meant to count toward the student's grade, so they are not added to the grade book.

Since the assignments are never graded, they will always appear as overdue in the student's Assignment Center.

Some parents have been looking over their children's shoulders at the assignment center, and gotten upset when they saw these apparently overdue assignments.
We would like a setting on the Edit Assignment screen that will prevent an assignment from appearing overdue.

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  • Oct 12 2015
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    Michael Morrissette commented
    10 Dec 15:53

    Hi Folks -

    I'm going to close out this idea, as the base requirement has since been implemented.

    There is a setting found in Academics > Grades > Grading setup > Assignments that allows admin to better determine the status behavior of assignments that do not have a turn-in component. Two of the options, Complete and To Do, will prevent assignments without submission methods from ever going into the Overdue status. However, teachers can still mark which assignments will leverage Overdue by selecting either the Online Submission or On Paper Submission options.

    -Mike

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    Michael Morrissette commented
    11 Sep 15:22

    Hey Folks -

    I just wanted to let you know that this feature will be coming in the next couple of weeks. Once implemented, teachers will see a new checkbox given the assignment does not allow for online submissions that can marked that will allow the assignment to by-pass the Overdue status and instead implemented go into the 'Complete' status.

    Be on the lookout in our What's New Communications as we'll announce there once the feature is made live.

    -Mike

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  • Guest commented
    09 Sep 15:10

    Our parents complain about this feature, and it is confusing because a teacher will mark an assignment Missing if it's not turned in, but this feature makes a parent or student think something is not turned in when in fact it just has not had a grade entered yet.

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  • Guest commented
    November 18, 2015 20:07

    This is a constant problem, especially when I use it for art assignments that students turn in on screen or via email. The assignment shows as overdue unless they submit something through OnCampus.

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  • Erica Browitt commented
    November 17, 2015 16:14

    Very much needed!  I know as a student this would drive me crazy, and I know it is driving some of my students crazy

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