The way onCampus handles retakes, late submissions, and committing assessment grades to the gradebook is very counterintuitive. I regularly get questions from teachers about how the whole process works. Usually the teacher is trying to let a student retake an assessment or make up the assessment because they were sick. They go into the assessment and mess with lots of settings (Clicking the "extend" button, adding a number into "Days late", clicking "Allow Retake") but still can't get the assessment to open for the student.

Almost always, the reason is because they gave the student a "0" in the gradebook. Since onCampus considers it "graded" it won't allow the student to take the assessment until the "0" is deleted from the gradebook. This is confusing because we emphasize to our teachers that they should give students a "0" for all missing assignments so a student's grade is affected until assignments are made up. We do this because just checking the "Missing" option on an assignment does not motivate students to complete work. If their gradebook cumulative is affected, they will put in the effort to figure out how to make up the work.

The fact that a teacher can't grade an assessment from the Results page is very annoying too. To enter a grade for a student (other than their recieved score on the assessment) or to delete a grade to allow a retake, they have to leave the Results page, open the gradebook, find the assessment, and add/delete the grade. Lots of extra steps for something that should be fairly simple.

Here is a possible solution: If a teacher clicks "Allow Retake" or "Extends" and there is currently a grade in the gradebook (regardless of the score) a notification should pop-up saying that the student currently has a grade and that allowing a retake will remove the previous grade.