Excuse Assignment in Gradebook

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As an instructor, I want to excuse an assignment for a student or students. When "excused," the assignment would have no impact on the student(s)' grade. Common use cases include excluding assignments for students who start late in the year or have a prolonged absence. Other uses would be making one assignment count for one subset of students while another subset have a different assignment that counts towards their grades. Other examples would be capstone projects, optional assignments, or extra credit. Excusing a student from completing an assignment should also remove the to-do list item for that student.

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Originally posted by: Jeffrey Rolan
Special thanks for great contributions by: Rob Ditto, Alaine Davis, Kevin Reeve, Mike Kisow, Neal Shebeck, and Chris Long

  Response from Instructure

Canvas Production Release Notes (2015-06-27)

Canvas Studio: Excuse an assignment (Phase 1)

[scottdennis]

Yeah, thats a hard call sometimes,  @SethBattis ​.  Sometimes features that are under development hit a snag and don't move into beta as quickly as we would hope.  Also, sometimes what we call something or how it operates doesn't match up with what  given individual or group ultimately wants to see, so its still good to get feedback. 

[scottdennis]

OK, this one is far enough along that we can safely mark the request as in development.  Please check Canvas Studio: Excuse an assignment (Phase 1)​ for updates.

[kona]

Yay!

[cwruck]

Hey all! Just wanted to give you a little update. Development is done and we're ready to deploy to Beta in our next release (6/29/15).

[scottdennis]

[Ron_Bowman]

 @scottdennis ​

Why isn't it a Panda?

[scottdennis]

[kona]

Awesome!! Thanks for the update!

[mlattke]

Hooray!!!!  Woo-hoo!  happypandadance​

[Renee_Carney]

Canvas Production Release Notes (2015-06-27) are here!​