Force on 'Automatically apply grade for missing submissions'?

[thatcher_bohrma]

Hello Canvas Community,

Is there a setting to enable "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" in the Gradebook settings, or do we have to do some tricky programming to force that on for all courses by default? We would also like to set the automatic grade to "0".

Thank you!

[BrianLester · Accepted solution]

This is not settable at account level - click the grading tab in the account and you'll see it's not an option.

This needs to be set at course level (and teachers could change it back...)

Chat GTP could probably create the code you need in python

You would need to loop through all courses setting

"missing_submission_deduction_enabled": true,

"missing_submission_deduction": 100,  at the API endpoint 

https://{Your Canvas url}/api/v1/courses/{course_id}/late_policy

[jcarpenter1]

Hello @thatcher_bohrma !  From a teacher's perspective, here is how you would make this happen.  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-apply-a-Missing-Submission-policy-in-th...

Since you put a label as an admin, are you looking for a way to do that for a district or subaccount?  I searched the admin guides and cannot find that information.  If you do want it for a district or subaccount, I'd recommend walking the teachers through the above steps in a training.

[thatcher_bohrma]

Hi!

Thanks so much for responding and looking at the admin guides. I appears that making this happen on a global level will take some more investigation.

Best

[BrianLester · Accepted solution]

This is not settable at account level - click the grading tab in the account and you'll see it's not an option.

This needs to be set at course level (and teachers could change it back...)

Chat GTP could probably create the code you need in python

You would need to loop through all courses setting

"missing_submission_deduction_enabled": true,

"missing_submission_deduction": 100,  at the API endpoint 

https://{Your Canvas url}/api/v1/courses/{course_id}/late_policy

[BrianLester · Accepted solution]

Sorry, adding this to previous reply - you'd need to begin by switching late_policies to off in all courses - otherwise attempts to adjust it via the API would get a bad response. Additionally per day / week deductions would need to be uniform