Automatic Assignment Reminders ahead of time and when overdue

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I searched the community for similar suggestions as this and I found a "nudge" reminder feature that was apparently shelved. Is there any upcoming new features that will suffice or can this nudge feature be revisited?

We have use cases where we are using notifications to manually remind students X amount of weeks before large assignments are due. These are grad students so their due dates AREN'T AS rigid as undergraduate classes.

In summary we would like to be able to remind students of two things:

  1. We REALLY need reminders of assignments that are overdue. Even if it was a new notification preference type we could ask the students to set. We would like them to be reminded daily or weekly when they have an un-submitted assignment that is overdue
  2. We want to be able to do away with our manual reminder/announcement process mentioned above. Instead it would be nice to setup integrated reminders, built into any assignment where we can specify the reminder to go out X amount of weeks/months/days/hours ahead of due date. We make this work currently by setting up the assignments and using announcements manually set specific amount of time ahead of it with a link to the assignment object in the announcement. 
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Stef_retired
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Instructure Alumni
Status changed to: Archived

@gkb063 

We have a few similar conversations already underway that share this problem statement, so please add your support and comments to those. We'll archive this one to keep those threads from branching off.

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MellieSal
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Be great if there could be time options pre programmed reminders like in outlook recurring ie 1 day before, 1 week after, 2 weeks after etc.  Having to set reminders manually is not an efficient process when you have numerous units / courses.