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As a private school for students with diagnosed learning differences, it is essential that we (school, teachers) maintain a close working relationship with parents. One of the ways this can be accomplished is for parents, when they look at their child’s calendar, to have a visual representation of which assignments are turned in and which assignments are not. When a student views the calendar, submitted assignments are crossed off. When a parent views their child’s calendar, it just shows their assignments. The parent has no readily available way to know if the assignments they are looking at are completed or not. I do understand the role of observer can be more than just a parent. However, I feel that the vast majority of observers are, in fact, parents, who need to know what assignments are and are not submitted. This is essential for the parent to be able to guide their child as needed. They need independent access to this information, and not have to reply on asking their child if assignments are turned in. Perhaps another role needs to be assigned to observer, called parent. Or assigned as a separate parent role; a role that, when activated, can pass the assignment completed information on to the parent. It would be awesome if somehow the grade earned on completed assignments could also be visible on this page. Perhaps the role of parent being default for observer, with a toggle to turn off the assignment completion info if the observer does not need this info. By far, the vast majority of observers will be parents. Until this feature is available, unfortunately, Canvas will not be as useful a tool as we need. One of the loudest and most frequent concerns from parents this school year has related to the parent calendar view, and the lack of available information on this page. Parents have asked why we chose Canvas as our LMS given that the calendar feature does not give the parent useful information. It is not good enough to just show the parent what assignments are due and when. The parent needs to see what assignments are turned in. This is essential. AS our students move from grade to grade, we promote a “hands off” approach, giving more homework decision-making and responsibility to students. Given the disastrous past experiences some parents have had with this before enrolling here, parents are relieved when they can give this independence, knowing they can still keep an eye on things in the background, and still see what is and is not turned in. Unfortunately, with the parent observer role, Canvas falls short on this aspect. Just knowing what assignments are due does not help. This simply isn’t enough. The fact that the parent observer calendar page does not show what actually needs to be turned in is a huge Canvas deficit. Canvas does so many other things so well. There are so many other features that work amazingly and flawlessly. Canvas has been a much needed improvement in how we, as a school, manage assignments and grades. However, this one parent observer issue is a critical issue; one that I strongly feel Canvas should review and implement. To empower parents and give them a tool to let them know in real time what assignments their child has or has not submitted, is game changing.  If anyone on the Canvas developer team feels otherwise, or feels this should not be implemented, please have them contact me and lets chat. I found a post from 2020 requesting this same feature. It is imperative that Canvas make this information available to parents.  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Canvas-Parent-Cross-out-submitted-assignments-on-calendar/idi-p/418638 ... View more