Allow individual extension for a student in an assignment

[joel_mills]

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Individual students often need a few more days to complete an assignment (not a quiz) and currently there is no way to grant individuals extensions to the deadline without affecting the whole class.

We need to be able to select an individual in an assignment and give them an extension of n=X days before their submission gets marked as late.

  Response from Instructure

Canvas Studio: Differentiated Assignments

[kona]

With the new differentiated assignments, it doesn't matter if you use sections or not because each student shows up in the pull down list. Here's a quick video showing how the feature works - 06.01.2015-10.04.21 - KonaJones's library

[vrs07nl]

Dear Kona

Thanks for  the screen capture - really useful and thanks for sharing.

I will test further later .. to see if having launched an assignment can then extend a user's deadline without affecting other users and without having to create a new assignment for just that user

Nicola

[kona]

Yes, it appears that this functionality is part of the new feature. The specific assignment I was trying this out with already had a graded submission and it all worked just fine.

[afoote]

Hi Nicola, Kona, and Renee,

Yes, the Doc Team is trying to improve the search functionality within the Guides. We do our best to think of how users will search for something but sometimes we just don't know. We will definitely take the 'individual assessment' tag into consideration.

Thanks!

[vrs07nl]

I think assessment  and extension would be better tags

[vrs07nl]

where are the guides for this new function - i cannot find them --using tags or phrases that are not working

[Stef_retired]

You'll find the instructions here: What do Differentiated Assignment varied due dates look like in Canvas?

[vrs07nl]

thank you!

[Stef_retired]

You're welcome; my pleasure.

[scottdennis]

Just a general note for anyone reading later; Usually we do not publish documentation for new features until they move from Beta to Production.  We follow this practice so that we can learn from experimenting in beta ourselves and also learn from all of your discoveries, as brought to light in the beta release comments and elsewhere in the community.