[Android] Student/Parent | Excused assignments show missing tag

Issue Documented: 2025-09-19
Canvas

This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment in versions 8.3 and 4.7.

Description

Excused assignments will show up with a missing tag in the Student and Parent apps for Android.

Expected Behavior

Missing tag should not display for excused assignments

Workaround

No workaround exists at this time.

Steps to Reproduce

Prerequisites: Have a course with at least one student and an observer linked to them.

  1. Create an assignment with a past due date and excuse the student of this assignment.

  2. As the student log in to the Student app on Android.

  3. Open the course grades.

  4. Observe that while the assignment shows “EX” the Missing label is also present.

Parent: Access the course in the Parent app and Observe that while the assignment shows “EX” the Missing label is also present.

Additional Info

MBL-19299

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