Mastery Paths creating second "Assign" section with no Due Dates

[ZacharyBowers]

I am attempting to use Canvas Mastery Paths. I have assigned a quiz for students and then students will have certain assignments opened to them based on their performance on the quiz. I have aligned everything based on grade performance under mastery paths in the quiz itself. The assignments are already created that they will have to do and have specific due dates on them. The Assign To group on these assignments are set to Mastery Pathways.

My issue is once students take the quiz, the appropriate assignments open up to them, however, the Assign portion of the actual remedial work adds a second section which includes each individual students name that fell into that mastery pathway but this new assign section has no Due Date, No Open Date, and No Available Until date. They are completely blank. So, I have 2 or 3 students that did not do the assignments given to them in their Mastery Pathway and they have not receive an automatic zero for a lack of completion, nor have the ones that have done it late received a grade penalty for the lateness of the work. Does anyone know of a solution to this issue?

I have attached a video of my issue as well for any that are interested. This is attached as a link below.

https://www.loom.com/share/18640a65ba984299a63e952eb178bf50

[KristinL · Accepted solution]

Hi @ZacharyBowers -

Mastery Paths is such a neat tool! I ran into the same frustration with Mastery Paths and dates when I used it as a teacher. I set reminders in my calendar to go set due dates for the conditional items so students and I stayed in sync.

While this is not an immediate solution, there is a long-standing idea open for conversation. Please consider adding to the discussion and rating (starring) the thread. You'll automatically receive updates if the request aligns with one of the Product Team's projects. Mastery Paths: Automatically Set Conditional Item Due Dates 

[amcvey3]

This doesn't really answer his question, though. I'm having the same issue of Canvas assigning a second Assign To group with student names, but it's not including all the students who have taken the initial assessment. 

[RichardMusgrave]

I did figure out a workaround for this, but it is still unwieldy, and we really need to get this feature request filled.

This will work if you have one quiz ("the opening quiz") to open one more quiz ("the second quiz"). It may work for longer chains, but I haven't tested that.

Go to "Grades" and assign a 100% grade to the Test Student for "the opening quiz". In Modules, click on "the second quiz", and you will see a new date box assigned to the Test Student. Set the dates in this box as desired. Save and click Continue in the warning box.

I know, I know...it's not ideal, but it's better than having to remember to go back in and set a date after a real student has taken "the opening quiz". 

[david_griffith]

We have used this method with a lot of success . Like you hinted...it's not automatic and it's not ideal, but at least lets us be proactive about adding the dates to the additional Assign to... BUT...and I wonder if you are seeing this too:

We are starting to get (for just over two weeks now) yet more additional Assign To sets for students taking the source assignment after some time around Mar 12. This is even for assignments already assigned to students on the path (early takers or at least before the affected date). We have some conditional assignments that are starting to accumulate 4+ assign to sets.

Have you seen anything like this? Again, we have had no issues until about two weeks ago.