What does "Test Student scores are not included in grade statistics" mean?

tono
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What does it mean for Canvas to say "Test Student scores are not included in grade statistics"? I see that on my test student grades page. In particular, this sentence appears when I click on the check mark icon right next to several assignments I created. I have no idea why the icon appears on those assignments, but not other assignments. It does not matter whether it has "missing" or not (no co-relations).

This is an example:

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I have received this question from three of my online students who saw the similar sentence on their grade page's certain assignments. I don't recall this issue in previous semesters.

I am confused as my students are. I can tell my students that these scores will not be dropped from the final calculation of their grade, but that's not an ideal solution.

Please help and provide suggestion as to how to fix it.

Thank you!