Automatically Inform Parents of Missing Work

Status: Archived Submitted by on ‎07-31-2020 12:11 PM
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We need to have this feature added to Canvas! It is hard for parents to know when a student has missing work or did not complete an assignment. Most parents are not going to login to their students Canvas to see what they are missing. I ran into this issue time and time again when in the spring we moved to online teaching. This will also really help teachers not have to go through student by student to figure out what the student is missing. It would be nice to have a push notification or something similar added that sends an email/text/etc to parents after the due date of an assignment. That way the parent is informed and can easily see when their student isn't completing work. This is especially important now as we are making a blended learning classrooms! 

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KristinL
Community Team
Community Team
‎08-03-2020 07:33 PM

Hi Amber ~ If your school supports Canvas Parent, some of these features are already available. Families can customize their alerts for each student they observe. How do I set alerts for a student in the Canvas Parent app on my iOS device?‌ While not teacher-initiated, I still think they're helpful!

embriski
Community Member
‎10-01-2020 12:07 PM

Yes we need this!!! Infinite Campus has this feature and I MISS IT!!!!

ACullen
Community Novice
‎10-15-2020 10:08 AM

Agreed.  There was a feature in Google Classroom that allowed me to send a work summary to parents.  I would be helpful if Canvas provided this.

jmorgan1
Community Member
‎12-08-2020 12:32 PM

Canvas generates an automatic email for students missing an assignment, which is very convenient.  However, it would be really great if you could "cc" the parents/observers on that email.  As is is now, a second email has to be manually created for the parents/observers and it takes quite a little while because you have to go through manually and identify which parents/observers are attached to just those students who were missing that assignment.

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Instructure
Instructure
‎04-13-2023 04:13 PM
Status changed to: Archived
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