Late status being removed after resubmission

[ewood]

When I manually mark an assignment as "Late", that late status is cleared when the student resubmits the assignment.  I would like my original "Late" status to remain...if the first one is late, the second one is late too.  Is there a way to keep the "Late" status setting from being removed? (I think it makes sense for "Excused" and "Missing" to be automatically updated.)

For more context - I do not enter due dates for assignments made on Canvas, the due dates are different for different sections and that information is posted on assignment sheets, so I manually change the status to "Late" if a student does not have a submission at the beginning of class.

[greydon]

Hello @ewood 

Thank you for contacting the Canvas Community. We're sorry to hear you've been experiencing issues with late statuses for student submissions. For your status to  be applied automatically, it  is completely reliant upon the due date. You can use the "Assign to" boxes to single out specific student if you'd like but if you manually assign "late" to a student submission in the gradebook and they resubmit the assignment without a due date, then the gradebook doesn't  see it as late and the status  will be sent back to normal. Unfortunately, there isn't a way around this and if you don't want to use due dates, you absolutely don't have to - but you will need to reapply the late status when students resubmit. I know it probably isn't the answer you are looking for, but hopefully it provides some clarification.