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How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?

If you would like to change the availability or due date for an individual student, or students, please follow How do I assign an assignment to an individual student? from Canvas community. 

How do I restore student submissions/grades if I unassigned an assignment?

When giving students an extension on a quiz or assignment, it’s possible for an instructor to unassign from the rest of the class. However, you can typically recover these students’ submissions by reassigning the grade item to everyone else. Please see the next section, How do I reassign an assignment to Everyone Else ? for more details.

How do I reassign an assignment to Everyone Else?

When creating or editing an assignment, you can assign an assignment to individual students, and set different due and availability dates for individual students while it is assigned to the rest of the class. Only the student(s) specified in the assignment details can view the assignment. 

Locate the assignment you need to edit, and open it.

When you assignment details page opens, scroll down to the field Assign. 

Select the Save Button.

Navigate to Gradebook

Find the assignment in Gradebook . The grades should be available once again.

Accessing Assignments in Canvas

Last modified 9/21/2023

As a student, your instructor manages access to assignments. If you cannot access an assignment, first contact your instructor and ask them to confirm that the assignment is assigned to you, published, and/or located somewhere in the course that you can access, such as Assignments located in Modules . 

Depending on how your instructor configured your course, you may be able to access assignments from a few locations. 

Your Instructor might have made your assignment accessible through an External Tool or a Learning Tool Integration (such as Macmillan ). If your assignment uses an external tool, it may restrict access to it until your instructor has set parameters for it to be available (i.e., assignment access dates set within the tool). Check with your instructor or contact the support for that specific LTI/tool  

Steps to Access Assignments 

In Course Navigation , click the   Assignments   link. If this link does not display, it is disabled in your course, or you might not have it Favorited. 

If the Assignments link is not available in Course Navigation, you can access course assignments through the Modules page.

By default, assignments are grouped by overdue, upcoming, undated, and past assignments.

• Overdue Assignments : Assignments and discussions past the due date are still available, have not been submitted, and have not been graded.
• Upcoming Assignments : Assignments, discussions, and quizzes that have an upcoming due date.
• Undated Assignments : Assignments, discussions, and quizzes that do not have a due date.
• Past Assignments : Assignments and discussions that are past the due date and either are not available, have been submitted, or have received a grade; quizzes that are past the due date.

The first dates you may see are called availability dates. Sometimes, your instructor only wants you to submit an assignment during a specified date range, so the available dates are the range of time that the assignment is accessible to you.

• If the assignment does not have a date listed, the assignment is open; you can submit the assignment at any time during your course.  
• If the assignment says   Available until   [date], you can submit the assignment until the specified date.
• If the assignment says   Not Available Until   [date], the assignment is locked until the specified date.
• If the assignment says   Closed , the assignment cannot accept submissions.  
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• Canvas: How do I use the Calendar as a student?
• Canvas: How to add events to my calendar
• Canvas: How to add a to-do item to my calendar

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This page reviews how to allow specific students to access a course after the term ends in order to finish an incomplete.  It also explains how to properly "close" a Canvas course and what restrictions that introduces.

It is not recommended that instructors keep courses "open" merely to have access to the materials to use in future courses.  Doing so keeps the course open for all the students, which they may not want to see.  Instead, instructors should create a 'sandbox' shell in their account with no enrollments and store the course materials there.

Allow Access for Incompletes

Incompletes present a special situation where only specific students need access to a course after the course end date. To do this, instructors create a special section of the course in Canvas.

Part 1: Create a new section

• Below the list of sections, provide the name for the new section (e.g., Incomplete)
• Click "+ Section". The new section appears in the list of sections.
• Click the name of the new section.  

• In the  Ends  field, enter the date that the incompletes must be completed by.
• Important:  check the box "Students can only participate in the course between these dates"
• Click "Update Section"

Now you need to add the students to the new section.

Part 2: Enroll students in the new section

• Click the '3 dots' menu for the student and select "Edit Sections"
• In the pop-up that appears, click the "Browse" link.
• It is not necessary to remove the student from the default course section.
• Click "Update" to finish the process

Repeat these instructions for any other student who needs to be part of the Incomplete section.

Part 3: Close the course for other students

With the new Incomplete section in place and students enrolled into it, it's time to close the course to the other students.

• Review the instructions given at the top of this page on "How to close a course"

Part 4: Create custom due dates for Incomplete students

Canvas assignments and quizzes can have different due dates for different students.  For each activity to be completed by the students in the Incomplete section, add a custom due date window in the activity settings.

Note: Never change or delete an existing due date window!   Doing so will  unassign  the activity to those students and hide their work and grades for the activity.

Read more:  How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?

Closing Your Course

Canvas does not automatically close your course at the end of the term!  Because each instructor is responsible for opening their course on their preferred date, they are also responsible for closing it.  However, one year after the term has ended (according to the university calendar), OAT will conclude the term in Canvas.  Doing so will close any remaining open courses from that term.

Closing a course sets it to the "Concluded" status and moves it into the  Past Enrollments  course list for you and your students. By default, closed courses can be viewed by students and instructors, but they cannot be edited by instructors (including adding new users) or participated in by students. Instructors do have options to address various situations.  Read on for details.

How to Close a Course

Warnings 1) Do not close your course yet if you need some students to continue accessing it to resolve an incomplete. Set up the incomplete section first and then close the course. See the bottom of this page for more information about incompletes. 2) Do not close your course until  you  are ready to stop updating it. Once closed, it is also closed to updates and changes by instructors!

• Change the dropdown menu to "Course".
• In the  End  field that appears, supply the ending date you would like for the course.

What this does:  that checkbox will hide the course completely from students, including from their list of Past Enrollments.

• Click  Update Course Details  at the bottom of the page.

Closed courses will not disappear from the Dashboard if the course was deliberately 'starred' as a Favorite. To remove a favorite course from the Dashboard, open your  All Courses  link and unstar the course in question.

Course Access After Closing

To access a concluded course, click the  Courses  menu and then click the "All Courses" link. The course will be found in the  Past Enrollments  area of your course list.  Click on the course name to open it.

Using a Closed Course

Instructors .

The following instructor actions are  allowed  with a concluded course:

• Download grades  to a CSV (Excel) file
• Use as a source for copying into a new course
• Export a course  to local computer
• Access material using visible navigation links (any links that were hidden from students will be hidden from instructors as well in concluded courses)

The following instructor actions are  not allowed  with a concluded course:

• Edit/change/upload course content (incl. assignments, quizzes, discussions)
• Edit/change Grades
• View/download Analytics
• View/download Item Analysis within Quizzes
• Send a message to the whole class within Canvas (individual messages still ok)
• Change any class settings
• Change/update class navigation

The following student actions are  allowed  with a concluded course by default:

• Access the course via  All Courses > Past Enrollments
• View Grades and feedback
• View course content (incl. downloading files as during the course)
• View Discussions and Assignments
• Send a message to the instructor

The following student actions are  not allowed  with a concluded course:

• View Quiz questions and answers
• Submit discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other course activities

Restrict Closed Courses Further

As mentioned previously, by default, concluded courses are still visible to students in read-only mode. This enables students to return to the course material and activities as reference in future classes. However, instructors can still restrict student access in additional ways if desired.

Option 1: Restrict the entire course after course end date

Instructors can completely remove the course from students' Past Enrollments, preventing them from accessing it at all. In the course Settings, check the box for  'Restrict students from viewing course after end date'  and click Update Course Details. Instructors will still have read-only access via Past Enrollments; only students' access is removed.

Option 2: Keep course visible but hide course navigation menu links

Use this option to allow students access to specific general areas of the course but not to others.  For example, instructors may wish to hide the Modules page but leave the Grades link available.  Use the regular controls at  Settings > Navigation  to disable specific course areas and hide them from student view (don't forget to click 'Save' at the bottom!).

Caution:  In closed courses, hidden navigation menu links are hidden to both students and instructors.

Option 3: Hide specific course content

This option is really only applicable to instructional materials on the Modules page.  To hide specific items, simply  unpublish  the item in question.  However, do not unpublish items that contain student participation (assignments, discussions, etc.) For help with those types of content, contact  [email protected] .

Contact  [email protected]  if you need assistance with any aspect of closing a course.

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