This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 6/19/24.
Description
Sending activityProgress=Initialized&gradingProgress=NotReady with a Score call creates a submission object. The early creation of a submission object submission object already can cause confusion for users because the submission/needs grading icon shows in the gradebook and the assignment comes off student to-do list , even though the student hasn't submitted anything yet.
Expected Behavior
Submission object should only be created after activityProgress=Submitted/Completed&gradingProgress=Pending/Pending manual
Workaround
Waiting to send the score call until the student has actually submitted the assignment
Steps to Reproduce
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Prerequisite: Have an assignment linked to a LTI 1.3 external tool with AGS enabled
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POST a Score to an Assignment's Line Item with activityProgress=Initialized&gradingProgress=NotReady
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Check for the student's submission object, and see that it says "workflow_state": "submitted"
Additional Info
INTEROP-8605
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