Hide an assignment and grades

Is it possible to hide an assignment from students, while also allowing grade entry? If so, can this be done programmatically via the API? I found that by not assigning a due date, the assignment does not appear in the student's To-Do, but setting a grade adds it to their Feedback feed.

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CallieAlreza

No, this is not possible. When students submit an assignment or quiz, you cannot unpublish and grade it simultaneously. This would be a good feature for Canvas to add, though.

matt2

It would also be helpful if we could programmatically set the posting policy for an assignment. There is a post_manually property on assignments in the API, but no parameter exists for setting that at creation or modification time.

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