There may be times you will want to exempt a student from a particular assignment. It could be for IEP students that are auditing, and you may decide to limit the number of assignments you ask them to complete. Or, you may have a new student start late who is auditing the classes and would like to assign him only a couple of the Week 1 assignments so he is not overwhelmed catching up with the rest of the class.

Directions in Canvas:

1. Go to your Grades page (grade center).
2. Find the student and assignment in question, and click on the cell for that combination in the spreadsheet.
3. This will give you a small box with an arrow in the cell. Click the box to bring up a side panel.
4. On this side panel, change the status to Excused. This will exempt this student from this assignment.
5. Repeat as needed.

Thanks, Dan Campbell, Roger Meinhert, Dave McCall, Monica Frees, and Deedee Stakely for calling this to our attention in eLearning so we can share with others!

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