Assignment default due date next class

Our teachers wish that when you pick an "assigned" date for an assignment, the assignment tool then auto populated the next class meeting date for each section. As it stands, the system shows upcoming meeting times for the section in the pop-up calendar view, but it auto populates today's date. Some exams are not due upon the next class meeting, but a large majority are.

  • Matthew Williams
  • Nov 22 2024
  • Under consideration
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    • David Panush commented
      28 Jan 14:59

      And the time should default to the beginning of the next class.

    • Guest commented
      December 13, 2024 14:22

      I think having the ability to enable this feature would be a great option! Just let us know when we are able to choose our next class as our default due time and how to set it up. Please also allow us to have this feature without having to enable it again every year. Thank you so much for investigating it!

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      Michael Morrissette commented
      December 05, 2024 13:58

      Hey Folks -

      We're talking through how we want to bring this to you all in the near future. Generally, the "happy path" is very possible (Each class has a single meeting time per day, and the schedule never changes). It gets a little more complicated in situations where the class has multiple meeting times on a single day. Likewise, do we target the class start time or the class end time - potentially we give you the option to choose which you prefer.

      The other difficult part with implementing something like a "next class period" option, rather than putting in a hard due date/time, it could cause some issues when there's a schedule change. We'd need to create some kind of a process that would refresh those assignment dates once the Master Schedule is saved. It's certainly not impossible, but a solution along those lines becomes a little more complicated to build.

      I imagine if we did such a thing, we'd likely implement an admin level default akin to the Default Due Time field so you all could decide to turn this on or off and then, given the option is enabled, auto-populate the due date / time when the teacher launches the +Assignment modal based on the next sequential class meeting date/time. We could also do something like where if the teacher selects a date, we automatically populate the time field based on the date selected (rather than requiring the teacher to select both a date and time).

      This isn't a promise that we'll implement this enhancement but know that we are investigating. If you have any feedback, feel free to reach out at michael.morrissette@blackbaud.com. Happy to chat!

      -Mike

    • Guest commented
      December 04, 2024 00:01

      If the system can auto fill the current date, and it already identifies the next class., Then it should be able to auto fill the next upcoming class. I would love this feature! Please 🙏

    • Elizabeth Rees commented
      December 03, 2024 20:42

      PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! This would be incredibly helpful and make creating assignments so much faster! A magical change if it is possible!

    • Guest commented
      December 03, 2024 03:17

      I would LOVE to have this happen.

    • Seth Battis commented
      November 22, 2024 20:04
    • Dania Lee commented
      November 22, 2024 16:41

      Yes! This would make posting assignments much quicker!