Make assignment dates universally accessible to students

[JOSEPHBEDARD]

As it stands, if a teacher does not want to specify an assignment's range of availability to students - e.g. maybe a student has been critically ill or has been hospitalized - or has maybe just been on vacation for a week - students cannot know the publication date of an assignment, i.e. they cannot know the date when the assignment was actually assigned.    With all of the useful, but ultimately unnecessary dynamism built into CANVAS, it's utterly shocking that in this case students cannot even know the date of an assignment. 

[TiffanyStull]

I find it very strange that when you publish an assignment, quiz, etc. where you have not previously specified an "available" date, Canvas does not automatically insert the publication date as the available date.  There is no reason why an available date should ever be null, as having the available date set in the past would make the item equally available immediately.

I think it should be possible for administrators at the account or sub-account level to enable a default date of null available date = publication date of assignment.

[TiffanyStull]

I posted the above comment as a separate idea to allow for the setting of default dates at the account/sub-account level: Default date options for items, e.g., if Due & Until are both null, setting Due defaults Until = Due

[ProductPanda]

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