[ARCHIVED] Why are my submit assignment buttons missing?

[jmaclean]

I transferred my class from last year and am setting up my next years summer assignment.  Everything appears to be working smoothly on the transfer except that the students don't have a submit assignment button on the assignments.  When I go look at the assignments in student view, the button is there.  The assignment is due on August 20th of 2018 (in the future) and the start date is in March of 2018 (the past).  The course is published and all the assignments show a green check mark as though everything is good.  Any ideas?

[kona · Accepted solution]

Silly question, but when is the "Until" date set for? Also, is this a regular assignment or does it involve some type of LTI or other third-party application?

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @jmaclean , you might want to check the section dates. You should be able to see this by going to your course settings and clicking on "Sections." Click on the name of a section and then click "Edit Section." Check these dates to make sure there isn't a conflict with your regular course setting dates.  

[kmeeusen]

Hi  @jmaclean 

I know this may sound like a silly questions, but...........

Did you set a Submission Type for the assignment?

Kelley

[jmaclean]

I have it set-up as a online submission, file uploads restricted to pdf,jpg,png,bmp types of files.  It works for me a student view, but doesn't show up for the kids when they login.

[jmaclean]

[kona · Accepted solution]

Silly question, but when is the "Until" date set for? Also, is this a regular assignment or does it involve some type of LTI or other third-party application?

[jmaclean]

One of my students said that a hovering green "announcement" said that "This course hasn't started yet......"   The course is set to begin on May 1st, 2018.  The announcement says they can't start until August 1st at 12 AM.

[Ron_Bowman]

Hi Jeff -

Kona is talking about the assignment itself.  Check the dates on it for available, due and until dates.

Ron

I reread your comment, and from that comment it sounds like the course has not been published (I know that is very basic, but I have made that mistake myself - published and set up all the material for the course and forgot to publish it)

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @jmaclean , you might want to check the section dates. You should be able to see this by going to your course settings and clicking on "Sections." Click on the name of a section and then click "Edit Section." Check these dates to make sure there isn't a conflict with your regular course setting dates.  

[ryry2007 · Accepted solution]

In my mastery connect I cant submit assignment and it just says saving and it won't submit

[jmaclean]

Kona, you got it!!!!

Thank you so much.  My one section was set to start on July 1st even though the class was to start May 31st.  That kept my students from starting their summer assignment.  That might not be a bad thing in the long run, but I wanted to at least show them how to submit their assignment before they left for the summer.

Thank you everyone for all your help.

[kona]

Yay!! Glad we were able to work through the issue and get it resolved! 🙂

[gal8573]

I have a student who has no upload button for her assignments (while the rest of the class has been uploading their stuff). I asked her to try using a different browser but this seems not to work. I'm going to ask her to clear her cache in case bad data is keeping her from getting the uploading button? But if anyone has other ideas (or even how I can upload things for her), that would be great.

CK