[ARCHIVED] Remove a student from a classic quiz

[terrycostantino]

The students completed a classic quiz but now I need to remove one student from the quiz because they have done an makeup assignment instead. Both the quiz and the makeup assignment are worth 5% so, consequently, the student's current grade is out of 105%.

[scottdennis]

what if you manually set the quiz or the makeup assignment score for that student to be zero?  Or what if you put them into another section and then made the quiz applicable only to the original section?

[sharon_kitching]

@scottdennis  - exactly, we use sections to exclude students. so you'll need to add all the students to x section, and the one you want to exclude to y section. Allocate each section to the relevant quiz. 

[terrycostantino · Accepted solution]

@scottdennis @sharon_kitching Thanks for your responses. My understanding is that once a quiz is completed, any change to who the quiz was assigned to would essentially restart the quiz - wiping out previous responses and grades - which wouldn't work in my case. However, with a bit more poking around online, I found another solution - excusing the student from the quiz in the gradebook. Once I did not, the student's grades are now out of 100%, rather than 105% (https://www.sfu.ca/canvas/instructors/gradebook/how-do-I-excuse-an-assignment.html) 

[scottdennis]

Great solution!  That sounds a lot more simple than what I was thinking of.

[AmandaS3]

This link seems to not work anymore... can you describe what you did?

[Ron_Bowman]

@AmandaS3 -

If I understand you want to know how to excuse a student from an assignment

Here is the link for the instructors guide to canvas for all information: 

In that guide there is an area under the gradebook section explaining how to excuse a grade in the how to use the gradebook wiki - you will have to go almost to the bottom.

Ron

[wpiper]

Sorry if I missed a solution to a very simple problem that I am having: makeup quizzes. I have a class of 92 that is taking the exam on a certain date and a few who have to take it on a later day. I am using a large question pool, so I am fairly confident of limited acad integ issues. What I need to do (as others have suggested) is to pluck out the handful of students taking the exam on the later date and not let the exam open for them on the first exam date. The other solutions I have seen proposed to this sort of common problem do not seem to apply. Again, apologies if my search missed the solution. I hate the prospect of having to select the 87 students one by one who are taking the exam on the first day! 🙂

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