Objective: Learn to exempt a student from an assignment.
Notes: When excusing students from content within units, it is a recommended best practice that schools excuse graded assignments like Checkpoints, but content delivery activities like Direct Instruction and Workbooks, be left as “view the item”. StrongMind Unit Exams are not presently editable and are created using Backward Design - beginning with the end by first identifying the desired outcomes, goals or learning objectives for a course, then creating appropriate assessments based on the desired learning outcomes. Finally our designers cultivate activities that promote those learning outcomes. This means that students should be at least exposed to all content, to ensure mastery, to meet state standards, and to ensure content being tested aligns with content learned. If you choose to exempt students entirely from direct instruction content, it is possible to create alternative assessments that match content learned. To learn how to create alternate assessments in Canvas, access StrongMind Support.
Related Article: Assign assignments to specific students, Set Custom Placement For an Individual Student
How-To Guide
- Select Courses on the left hand side in global navigation, then select course you want to work in.
- Select Grades on the left hand side in the course navigation.
- Find the assignment you would like to excuse a student from.
- Find the student you would like to excuse from that assignment.
- Type "ex" in the Gradebook.
- Select Enter on the keyboard and the word "Excused" will populate under the assignment.
NOTE: The student will see that the assignment has been excused.