Option to Hide Inactive Students from Gradebook

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So we implemented some changes to our process for handling dropped students based on the new Inactive enrollment status for withdrawn students feature. This is going to be a great improvement when it comes to faculty access of dropped students activity in a course (usually for financial aid or grade dispute reasons). However, one issue we've run into is that the inactive students are still showing up in the gradebook. I understand this is intended functionality and the rationale behind it, however, our faculty do need a way to hide those students from their gradebook.

 

What I would like to propose is something similar to how the "Show Concluded Enrollments" toggle works in the gradebook settings. I'm not too particular on whether the default should be "hide" and the toggle should "show" or vice versa but having the option to filter them out would be a huge help.

 

Edit 1/29/2016:

I would want this toggle to be permanent, rather than session-limited the way "Show Concluded" is. This way the setting lasts until it's toggled back off, rather than having to be re-toggled on each new session.

 

 

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For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-04-23)

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Renee_Carney
Community Team
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  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-04-23)

Renee_Carney
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Thank you to awilliams for submitting this idea, as well as,  @bacherts ,  @ibagdasa , lerickson, snugent,  @kristin_bayless ​,  @kmeeusen , 594948, malverez,   @tmd194  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the CanvasSmiley Happy

bacherts
Community Contributor

Renee - I was taking a look at Beta and I am super stoked that they are automatically hidden in the Gradebook.  This will make my faculty extremely happy!  I was wondering about inactive students being hidden in SpeedGrader.  Is this on the radar to be updated as well?  Some faculty get confused as to whether they need to give a zero to someone or not because it is not distinguishable between a student who has not submitted an assignment and is inactive.

Thanks, Sam

awilliams
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni
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Hey  @bacherts ​,

My understanding from speaking with Canvas support is that the visibility of inactive students in SpeedGrader is a bug and is being worked on.

bacherts
Community Contributor

thanks awilliams​ - that is good news.

Thanks, Sam

Sylvia_Ami
Community Contributor

Thanks for the update  @Renee_Carney ​.  I see that teachers can show/hide inactive students now. But when I export the gradebook, the inactive student always is included in the exported data.  Am I right? I would think that if the inactive student is NOT displayed in the GB and I export the current GB, the inactive student shouldn't show. Is this a feature request?

Sylvia_Ami
Community Contributor

I just found my own answer. I see that up for voting is the request to not include inactive students in the gradebook export. Here's the link:

Renee_Carney
Community Team
Community Team

Thanks for letting us know!  So glad you found it!

jrober26
Community Member

How can we do this in new gradebook? #newgradebook

Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

 @jrober26 ‌, you'll find the instructions in https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-16543-4152813646