The general course-wide setting from the grade book was on automatic, and I never touched that setting before. The icon disappeared after manually posting/releasing the grades though, thanks.

I have an unpublished course with three modules. When wanting to move an assignment from one module to another, this error message appears: Move item failed undefined is not an object (evaluating '...

Thanks, Jeff, I changed it to manual, and now it's correct in the student view.

New to Canvas, I did not realise that the grading was set to manual (apparently by default), so after grading many assignments, realising the problem, I changed the grade posting policy to automatic -...

Then you're lucky. Our students get notifications no matter what. Like any good CMS, it should be simple: Unpublish. Make changes. Republish. No notifications - unless explicitly desired.

The general course-wide setting from the grade book was on automatic, and I never touched that setting before. The icon disappeared after manually posting/releasing the grades though, thanks.

New to Canvas, I did not realise that the grading was set to manual (apparently by default), so after grading many assignments, realising the problem, I changed the grade posting policy to automatic -...

Then you're lucky. Our students get notifications no matter what. Like any good CMS, it should be simple: Unpublish. Make changes. Republish. No notifications - unless explicitly desired.

Published Page or AssignmentKeep it publishedThen I make changesI do not tick "Notify users that this content has changed"I click "Save" and do nothing else Then the students get no no...

Tried that, but no joy in Safari or Chrome. Maybe tomorrow. Not super urgent.