Gradebook - Exempt a Student from an Assignment
As needed, you can use the Grade Detail Tray to change the status for an assignment, discussion, or quiz submission. Available statuses include late, missing, excused, or none (no status). You can also change the status for a group assignment. Assignments with a late or missing status will display a label on the student's grades page indicating the status. If you do not want status labels displayed on a student's grades page, set the assignment status to None.
Excused assignments are not calculated as part of a student's total grade. Currently, points are not automatically deducted for assignments with a late status.
When an assignment is excused, the assignment page and the student grade page will show the student that he or she has been excused from the assignment. Students cannot submit excused assignments.
When a missing label is manually applied, the missing label is removed by a new submission or manual removal. Entering a score does not remove a manually-applied missing label.
Note: You can change the status colors for each status in the Gradebook; however, you cannot change the status names. You can also change the status of submissions in the SpeedGrader.
For more information and step-by-step instructions, click on this link to the Canvas Community help guide.