Is there a way to close an assignment for only ONE student?

On my assignment page, I clicked "Everyone" for who could see the assignment. However, there are a couple of students that have submitted work early for which I graded and gave feedback. They went in, opened up the assignment and then gave answers or feedback to other students in the class. I don't want these two students to be able to load their assignment after submitting it.

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SusanNiemeyer

If you want to start grading, but not give the students access to their grades or comments, then go to your Gradebook. For that assignment, make the column "manual grading." If you're using a rubric, you also need to go a step further and select "hide grades."

Test this out by submitting, grading, and giving feedback to a "test student." Then go into the Student View and then Grades to see if this has worked.

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Chris

Hi @lloyd_sharon_l,

You could try to use the "excused" grade option for the selected students. The guide notes "Students are not able to submit excused assignments, and excused assignments are not calculated in the student's total grade." Students could still access the assignment instructions though, which I'm not sure is acceptable.

Another suggestion I recently saw here in the community was to change the assignment availability dates for the individual student(s) to something far in the future (years), leaving the "everyone else" selection with the normal dates. That should prevent the individual students from accessing the assignment at all.

Do you think one of these methods would work for you?

-Chris

SusanNiemeyer

Test this out by submitting, grading, and giving feedback to a "test student." Then go into the Student View and then Grades to see if this has worked.

RoseJuma

Great answer. This is significant because sometimes the students want to improve their grades and will request additional time to submit a correction. Using the hide grade from their view will allow time for the final grade to be updated without them seeing the changes.

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