Send a message to students without those who have an exemption

[atsond12]

Hi, does anyone know how to filter out students who are exempt from an assignment, when sending out messages?

My goal is to reach all students who have not delivered yet, without sending a message to those who are exempt from delivering.

[WatsonWork]

Hi @atsond12 ,

Did you allocate the assignment to your whole cohort or just the students that are meant to do the task? Canvas makes it easy to not add the “exempt’ students to the task.  

If the task is only assigned to the non-exempt students then you can use the “Message Students who…’ in the Gradebook.

Gareth

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@WatsonWork 

I think what @atsond12 meant to say was excused and not exempt.  In that case for an assignment where a student is excused, they still show up in the list of students to receive the message from "message students who..."

@atsond12 what you will have to do is use the "message students who..."  and then view all the students and remove all the ones that are excused from the assignment.

I checked in my playground and excused students are still used in the list of students to receive that message.  To me that sounds like a bug(or an oversight) on Instructures part in the coding.  It should be put in as feature request to bring it to their attention (I guess).   I do not know the best way to get the attention of someone to fix this issue other than a feature request

If a student is excused from an assignment, then they do not need to receive messages indicating they have not submitted the assignment or they have not scored high enough.

[atsond12]

Thanks, that's exactly what I meant. I will make this a feature request, thanks for clarifying 🙂