[ARCHIVED] How to adjust just one student's score to remove lateness penalty

[erica_wagner]

I have one student who submitted her quiz on time but for some reason canvas "lost" it, so she had to resubmit after the due date.

It is a graded survey (worth one point to every student who completes it). I assigned the point to each student via the "fudge" point, as each question on the survey was set to zero points. But I can't hand override her score or the lateness penalty within speed grader or the grade book itself, and going back later and adding 0.3 points to the penalized students "fudge" score isn't working. Her score still displays as 0.7 points out of 1.

[Steven_S · Accepted solution]

It is hard for canvas to "lose" a quiz submission.  I would ask the student to get confirmation from canvas support with a ticket number that I can follow up on as proof, if that was reported to me. 

With a resubmission, speedgrader sometimes needs a box to be checked to "use the same score for this submission."  You might also check the list of attempts in the upper right corner to see which attempt is displaying for your fudge points, and check whether you have set the score to keep the latest or highest attempt. 

In the gradebook you can remove the late tag on the right side menu that pops out when you click the arrow next to her score.  You can change the indicator to "none" or change the number of days late, as appropriate.  If you do not have that option, it is something to ask support about.

[erica_wagner]

Related to this question, I am now seeing the lateness penalty applied to the "test student," which I use to determine maximum possible points on assignments. If I add the maximum score into the test student's grade after the penalty date, the penalty is deducted. Sometimes it is difficult to apply a fudge factor to make up for this, as it can be very fractional with decimal points and so on.

This is a new issue, and I don't know why it's now applying late penalties to the test student when this wasn't happening before.

How do I quickly and easily turn off a late penalty for just ONE student?

Another situation where this is relevant, and more common than a "lost" assignment in canvas (I regret using that example now as the answer diverged from what I was looking for answer wise and got hung up on re-submissions) is if I forgive the late penalty for a particular student due to circumstances beyond their personal control interfering with the submission being on time.