IEP/504 and Late Work

[KatieFrancom]

Hello, I would like to implement an automatic Canvas late work policy this year. However, I am worried about how it will affect my students with IEPs and 504s. Currently, there is no way to automatically exempt them from the deduction. The only way is to manually mark their assignments as not late.

To any of you that use the Canvas late work deductions, what have you done to accommodate students?

[DrNufer · Accepted solution]

When you are creating your assignment, on the bottom of the page (when you are editing the assignment) then you can assign different due dates for different students.  By default the due date is assigned to "Everyone" in the course.  However, if you click that  [  +Add   ] button at the very bottom then you can assign a different due date or time of the day for another student (or students).  Their assignment in the gradebook would not be marked late until their extension lapses.  Notice that when you make an exception for one more more students, then the original assigned group changes from "Everyone" to "Everyone Else".

[candydrabek]

Is it possible to put all our IEP students in a group and exclude that group instead of inputting each student individually? I have about 15 different students in each class, so putting them in individually will take quite a while.

[TrishaMeyer1]

Hi @candydrabek,

In order to select a group of students regularly, you would need to create a course section containing those students. (They could still be in the full course section; students can be in multiple sections at once.) Contrary to its name, Groups does not provide this functionality, as it is intended for collaborative work.

Some institutions do not allow users to create sections, so you would need to check with yours. Also, if you use a separate Student Information System and need to sync grades to it, you may not be able to sync the smaller sections. (For example, Aeries does not recognize sections created by the user, only those it created and "pushed" to Cavnas.) If your SIS has this limitation, you would need to input the grades manually in the SIS instead of using the "Sync to SIS" feature.

If you are allowed to add sections and don't need to worry about an SIS, you can create sections and then select an entire section using the method described by @DrNufer .

How do I add a section to a course as an instructor?

How do I assign an assignment to a course section?

[TampaNative]

It would be really beneficial for K - 12 instructors to be able to have a setting where we can place our IEP, 504 and ELL students into a Group of some sort so we can expedite this. If we cannot create the sections, typing names the many names that this might consist of for every assignment is very time consuming and we do not want to accidentally leave someone out for an assignment either.

This is a big opportunity and should be able to be remedied.