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I have run .csv update files twice daily for years. In the past, if our SIS indicated a student was to be removed from a section, I used the enrollments .csv file and put "deleted" for status. Ah, but then the student had to be returned to the section. I did the "active" setting and imported. In the past, the student, their work, their grades all returned.
Not today!! I did the same routine as I always do and had to reinstate two students to a section. Now the students are back, but there are no grades or submissions showing. Worse, when I go to our backup site and grab the grades, the production course Gradebook will not allow me or the teacher to add back the grade! It's a grey block and no way to add a grade.
What happened??? Help!
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Hello @wilsong
I understand that you are seeing an issue where submissions are not returning for some students who were removed and then added to a course.
I know in Canvas that submissions are tied to enrollments. So as an example; if a student is removed from a course, the submissions are also removed. When they are added back into the course the submissions should also return.
If needed, you can have Canvas support look into this to figure out why the grades and submissions are not returning when the student is added back into the course.
Have you checked assignment settings to make sure the assignment(s) are assigned to those students? In my experience, a gray box that you can't click generally indicates the assignment wasn't assigned to that particular student or their section (and doesn't have the "everyone" or "everyone else" enabled either.
-Chris
Hello @wilsong
I understand that you are seeing an issue where submissions are not returning for some students who were removed and then added to a course.
I know in Canvas that submissions are tied to enrollments. So as an example; if a student is removed from a course, the submissions are also removed. When they are added back into the course the submissions should also return.
If needed, you can have Canvas support look into this to figure out why the grades and submissions are not returning when the student is added back into the course.
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