Hide an assignment and grades

[matt2]

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.

[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.

[dbrace · Accepted solution]

Hi @matt2,

I do not have an answer for you about the API, assignments, and post_manually but according to Re: Can Assignment's "post_manually" be made edita... - Instructure Community - 608113 in 2024, it is considered to be read-only.

You can however use the GraphQL API.

-Doug

[matt2]

@dbrace thanks for the heads-up on the GraphQL topic! That may solve the problem I'm working on. It also makes me wonder whether there are other read-only fields that can be manipulated in GraphQL? 

Thanks!