Student notifications for late work

[CraigWassinger]

Is there a way to setup notifications to notify students when a submission date or due date has passed and they have not submitted or completed the assignment?

[lshulman]

Work due should appear in the students "to do" list. Though I don't think it shows what's late/overdue. If the student checks their "grades" page in the course site, they will see what is "missing" (past the due date).

I manually send a notice from the gradebook to all students with "missing submission". Though it would be nice if an automatic notification can go out in such circumstances, at least you can send ONE notice to the entire group of students (options are in the three dots by the assignment name at top of gradebook). I keep a master list to just copy and paste my notices from.

[CraigWassinger]

Thanks for this option. I do use this feature and was hoping to automate it more.

[JolandaSallmann]

I always send out the manual notifications to students missing an assignment due date (a "gentle reminder" I call it). However, I have noticed that even though the assignments show up in the "to-do" list, and students can see in their "grades" section what is missing, I often receive replies of thanks and messages from students saying they missed that assignment. I have found this most often with transfer students who are using Canvas for the first time. Having an option to automatically send out notifications of missing assignments after a due date has passed would be extremely helpful. 

[Jeff_F]

@CraigWassinger  Within Gradebook Settings I enable a late policy to automatically enter a 0% as a grade for missing submissions. Depending upon how the student notifications are configured I do believe they then receive a note about the grade. It would be nice if the system could add a default message. For example, a field where I can enter text that reiterates the late work policy such as how many points are deducted each day, etc. That way I don't have to send a message to the students or enter a comment in the Speedgrader for each non-submission.

While Canvas also provides the automatic point deduction feature I hadn't yet enabled this.  Perhaps I'll test this out in the coming term. A deduction of 10% per day sounds about right but I accept work for only 7 days past the due date.

[CraigWassinger]

The 0% entry may prompt a response from the students. This may be a usable work around for now. Thanks