extension beyond availability date

[patricia_lipsey]

This summer will be our first time in Canvas. I teach an honors course with the policy that students have a one week grace period beyond the due date and then the assignment closes and they receive a permanent zero.  I set the due date and made the availability date one week later.

My question is   What if I want to give an extension to a single student beyond the availability date due to unusual circumstances. How do I do this?  Am I using the wrong settings for what I want to do.

What would happen if I remove availability dates and manually enter zeros for students. Does this prevent students from doing the assignment?

Thanks so much.

Pat

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @patricia_lipsey ​, to extend out the due date for just one student see the following guide for directions - How do I assign an Assignment to an individual student or course section?

For your second question I'm not 100% sure I understand, are you saying what would happen if you remove all until dates? If you remove the until dates the zero grade will stand if a student submits something, but you'll get a notification that there is a more recent submission. In addition, this can be confusing to students because in their mind they did submit the assignment.

[jproppe]

In most cases we are intending to extend a due date for 1 student due to some extenuating circumstance. The original "until" date in the assignment has passed. How can we extend an assignment (not a quiz) after the "until" date without opening up the assignment to everyone again by changing the "until" date? Students who never completed the assignment will be confused and think they may also submit the assignment after the "until" date.

In the instructions on how to "create" and assignment with different due dates, the following is included in the notes area: 

Notes:

• To allow a student access to an assignment past the assignment's initial Until date, you must modify the Until field in the assignment's initial date fields.