To - Do List

[sallen3]

The To-Do list has been both a blessing and a curse. Some students benefit from it while others do not. 

What I noticed for the first time this year is that when a student clicks on the activity in the To-Do list, it brings them to a submission page. This seems to be more specific to students who have a missing or late assignment. 

Students then ask me to "unlock" the assignment, which I almost never lock assignments unless they are midterms, finals, and so on. Why does the To-Do list need to bring students to this screen? Why can't it bring them to the actual assignment? 

[gnoack]

Hi @sallen3 

Do you have a page where assignment information is listed that is different than the assignment submission/activity?   In my course I have all the information about an assignment on the submission/activity page, what I think you are calling the submission page.   That way, all of the information is there for students to view. 

You can set due dates for pages, but that is only a read-by date.  And, you would then have two links in the two-list, one for the assignment page and one for the submission activity. 

If I misunderstood you, please clarify how you have organized your course. 

[sallen3]

Thanks, but that's not it. 

When I make the assignment, everything goes right into the direction section there. This is not for any assignment that was made in Pages or anywhere else. 95% of the assignments I create, give or take a few, are in an Assignment post. 

With that said, when my students see the Assignment in their To-Do list and click it, it brings them to the submission page where there are no directions listed. Hope that helps!

[Ron_Bowman]

@sallen3 -

I just tried this out in my playground with my student accounts.

I created a regular assignment(not a quiz )- I put in instructions in the description area - I tried text entry and online submission formats.

In the cases I tested when I used my student account to access the assignment through the to-do list, yes it went to the submission page, but it showed all of the instructions that are present in the assignment - matter of fact I get to the exact same page when I click on the assignment from the assignment navigation link.

Are you personally seeing this issue?  Or is it something the students are reporting to you?

In the screenshot below, the details tab is where the instructions are.  and in writing this I noticed that there is an arrow next to details that allows the details to be hidden.  When I accessed the assignment as mentioned above, I got the view with the details showing.  I could then hide the details by clicking on the arrow.

I do not know if there is a setting somewhere to make that start hidden or not, but maybe the hidden details are what the students are seeing.

Ron

[sallen3]

Hi, 

Thanks, this actually helped a great deal. Students did show me the screens they were getting, which did not have the directions. Just had the opportunity to have another student show me a missing assignment, but that one did have directions. What does not make sense to me is why in your screenshot the "these are the directions" were under a collapsed "details" menu. What's even funnier to me is that my student did not have the "details" menu listed. 

Maybe it depends on the type of assignment? 

[Ron_Bowman]

@sallen3 -

in my picture, I wrote what is shown below details in the information area for the assignment and it is in the uncollapsed view - arrow pointing down. If I click on the arrow it goes horizontal and hides the instructions.

Without seeing the actual assignment - or what type it is - makes it hard to tell why the details would be missing in the student assignment view.  

Ron

[dlapetin]

We are also noticing this behavior as well for LATE assignments, and feel it is connected with External tool-type assignments. Students that access the assignment from a module or page link are able to continue submitting the assignment; those that attempt to access it from the "to-do" list are presented with the "Submission" page, as described above. This page does not give them the opportunity to submit. 

[gnoack]

I did some testing as well, and I am not able to replicate the issue.  Perhaps try a few different browsers to see if that makes a difference.