Canvas

Solved: Synchronous classrooms and the Missing Assignment

Created by Scott Aten, February 11, 2021

For those Middle School and High School classes that are teaching synchronously, one issue that has come to our attention in Canvas is the "missing" assignment issue in the gradebook for your in-person students. The challenge is you have to give an assignment to all of your students but the in-person students are going to do something in class for the grade or turn it in on paper and the at home student need to turn it in through Canvas. The in-person students get a "missing" mark next to the grade that causes confusion for the student and even more so for the parents. You could go in and change each student to "none" in the side menu, but that would take a lot of time.

So here is the way to avoid extra work for you and keep parents and students on the same page as the teacher.

Setting up the Assignment

Create your new assignment as you normally would.
Assign points, assignment type
Submission type needs provide two options: "Text Entry" and "File Upload". NOTE - If you are using the External Google LTI tool, you don't have to do anything special. External tools don't mark things as "Missing" in the Canvas Gradebook.
Set your "Sync to ProgressBook"
Assign should be "everyone"
Set your Due Date
Save and Publish

What will the students Do?

In-person students can simply turn in the assignment to the teacher directly during class, BUT they also need to go into the assignment and type something in the text box. Something like "I turned this in on paper". The teacher can enter the grade in on the "grade" page of Canvas after grading the student paper given in person.

The online students can submit the document using the file upload. The teacher can grade the assignment using the SpeedGrader.

That's it! The parents and students will not see "Missing" on the assignment because technically both types of students turned something in through Canvas. And the classroom teacher just has ONE assignment that will sync to PB correctly.

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