How to hide available from/until and due dates of an assignment from students?

[GreenPen]

Hello, in our course we want to do attendance through a canvas graded quiz. It is a large course with 500+ students. It is imperative that students would not be able to see from when till when the graded quiz attendance registry is open on Canvas, we will announce that in class. Because if they see at which times the attendance quiz is open then they will be able to fill it in from home just as well. Is there a way to hide from students the "available from/available to/due" dates on a canvas quiz/assignment?

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@GreenPen -

The only way I know of to hide that information is to not publish the quiz/assignment.  Which would mean that you would have to publish it at the time you want it to become available.  Not the ideal case as you probably want it automated where you set it up in advance to become available at a certain time without students knowing when that time is.

[GreenPen]

Thank you. That's what we also figured out. It is just frustrating how Canvas lacks so severely even in the most basic functionality which shouldn't be a difficult thing to implement. We also figured out that if you set the quiz as an ungraded survey, then you still see who has completed/not completed it and it doesn't appear in the assignment section. However, it still appears under the "To do" column for students and there is also no way to disable or hide anything from students in the "To do" column on Canvas. So, indeed the only option is to publish it just before, which may be a menial task, but still takes up time.