Error when saving any edits to Grading Period Sets

Issue Documented: 2025-08-13
Canvas

This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 9/10/25.

Description

When Saving a grading period, a banner is seen at the top of the page that the grading period set was updated successfully, but the page is blank and at the bottom you'll see "Unexpected Application Error! Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'focus')"

Expected Behavior

No page blank/error when saving grading periods.

Workaround

No workaround exists at this time.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Go to Grading tab in account.

  2. Click the pencil for a grading period set.

  3. Make an edit, or don't, and click Save.

Additional Info

EVAL-5845


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