Assignment Plugin Settings

Page last reviewed: June 15, 2026 — Assignment reports and alerts documentation has moved to Assignment Reports & Alerts.

Assignment Plugin Settings control school-wide grading rules, assignment creation restrictions, missing assignment behavior, alert schedules, and grading cut-off dates. These settings affect all teachers and courses across the school.

Review these settings at the beginning of each academic year and whenever grading policies change.

How to Access

Navigation: School → Assignments → Assignment Plugin Settings

Grading Restrictions

Setting	Type	Default	Description
Restrict teachers from grading after the due date	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, teachers cannot enter or change grades after the assignment's due date has passed. Administrators can still grade. The number of days allowed after the due date is configured per assignment type under Assignment Types.
Restrict teachers from grading past terms	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, teachers cannot enter or change grades for assignments in past grading terms. Only the current and future terms are editable.
Restrict teachers from updating grading categories	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, teachers cannot change the grading category of an existing assignment. This prevents accidental miscategorization after initial setup.
Restrict teachers from changing assignment dates	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, teachers cannot modify the start date, due date, or available date of an existing assignment.

Assignment Creation Rules

Setting	Type	Default	Description
Allow creating assignments for past dates	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, teachers can create assignments with start or due dates in the past. When disabled, all assignment dates must be today or later.
Allow selecting holidays for due dates	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, teachers can set assignment due dates on school holidays. When disabled, holiday dates are blocked from selection.
Show activities to students before enrollment date	Checkbox	On	When enabled, students can see assignments created before their enrollment date in the course. When disabled, students only see assignments created on or after their enrollment date.

Teacher Report & Grading Page Settings

Setting	Type	Default	Description
Show average on teacher grading page	Checkbox	On	When enabled, the class average for each assignment is displayed on the teacher's grading page.
Show current and future terms only	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, the teacher assignment report only displays assignments from the current and future grading terms. Past terms are hidden.
Allow teachers to manually select terms	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, teachers can choose which grading term to view on their assignment report. When disabled, the system automatically shows the current term.

Missing Assignment Settings

Setting	Type	Default	Description
Prevent marking as missing before due date	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, teachers cannot mark an assignment as "missing" until the due date has passed. This prevents premature missing flags on assignments students still have time to complete.
Mark missing assignments with zero	Checkbox	Off	When enabled, assignments marked as "missing" automatically receive a grade of zero. When disabled, missing assignments have no grade value and are excluded from average calculations until graded.
Missing grade value for percentage scales	Number	0	The grade value assigned to missing assignments in courses using a percentage grading scale.
Missing grade value for point scales	Number	0	The grade value assigned to missing assignments in courses using a point-based grading scale.
Missing grade value for letter grade scales	Text	F	The letter grade assigned to missing assignments in courses using a letter grade scale.

Grading Cut-off and Category Hiding Dates

These dates control when grades are locked and grading categories become fixed for each term. After the specified date and time, teachers cannot enter or modify grades, create new assignments, or change grading categories for that term.

These dates control when grading categories become unavailable to teachers. Set these for each grading term to enforce grading deadlines.

When a grading cut-off date passes, three restrictions take effect: (1) Teachers cannot create new assignments in that term's categories. (2) Teachers cannot change grades for assignments in those categories. (3) The grading categories are hidden from the assignment creation form. Administrators are not affected by these restrictions.

Setting	Type	Description
Term 1 cut-off date	Date picker	The date after which Term 1 grading categories are locked for teachers.
Term 2 cut-off date	Date picker	The date after which Term 2 grading categories are locked for teachers.
Term 3 cut-off date	Date picker	The date after which Term 3 grading categories are locked for teachers.
Term 4 cut-off date	Date picker	The date after which Term 4 grading categories are locked for teachers.
Year-long cut-off date	Date picker	The date after which year-long grading categories are locked for teachers. Use this for categories that span the entire academic year.

Important: After a cut-off date passes, the following restrictions take effect for that term:

Grades are locked — teachers cannot enter or modify grades
Assignment creation is disabled for that term
Grading categories are fixed — existing assignments cannot be recategorized

Insufficient Activity & Grade Alert Schedule

These settings control the day and time when alert notifications are sent. This schedule applies to insufficient activity alerts, failing student alerts, and excessive missing, failing, or no-grade alerts.

Setting	Type	Default	Description
Alert day	Dropdown (days of the week)	Do not send	The day of the week to generate the insufficient activity report and send alert notifications. Set to "Do not send" to disable alerts entirely.
Alert hour	Dropdown (hours)	7:00 AM	The hour on the alert day when the report is generated and notifications are sent. Choose a time before the school day starts so teachers see alerts when they arrive.

Grading Alert Thresholds

These thresholds determine when excessive missing, failing, or no-grade alerts are triggered. Alerts are sent to teachers, department heads, team leaders, and school administrators based on assignments from the current grading term only.

These thresholds determine when teachers and administrators receive alerts about excessive missing, failing, or ungraded assignments. Alerts are sent on the schedule configured above.

Setting	Type	Default	Description
Insufficient activity threshold	Number	3	The minimum number of gradable activities required per week per course. Courses with fewer activities than this number trigger an insufficient activity alert. Only gradable activities (assignments and SBAs) placed within weekly sections count — items in the welcome area or non-gradable items are excluded.
Missing assignment threshold %	Percentage	30%	An alert is triggered when the percentage of students with missing assignments in a course exceeds this value. Calculated as: (number of students with missing assignments ÷ total enrolled students) × 100.
Failing grade threshold %	Percentage	30%	An alert is triggered when the percentage of students with failing grades on an assignment exceeds this value. Calculated as: (number of students with failing grades ÷ total graded students) × 100.
No-grade threshold %	Percentage	30%	An alert is triggered when the percentage of students with no grade (ungraded) on an assignment exceeds this value. Calculated as: (number of ungraded students ÷ total enrolled students) × 100.

Alert Recipients

Alert notifications are sent based on each recipient's role and scope.

Role	What they receive
Teachers	Alerts for their own courses only.
Department Heads	Alerts for all courses within their department.
Team Leaders	Alerts for courses within their team grades.
Assistant Principals	Alerts for all courses school-wide.
Principals	Alerts for all courses school-wide.

Beginning-of-Year Checklist

Review and update grading cut-off dates to match the current academic calendar.
Confirm grading restriction settings, including due date restriction and past term restriction.
Set the assignment creation rules, including past dates and holidays.
Review missing assignment values for both numerical and scale grading.
Set the notification day and hour for alerts.
Update activity thresholds per department.
Review alert thresholds for missing, failing, and no-grade alerts.
Verify teacher report terms match the current grading structure.

Tips and Troubleshooting

Teachers say they cannot grade an assignment
Check the grading due date restriction. If enabled, the grading window may have closed. Also check the grading cut-off dates. If the term's cut-off date has passed, all grading for that term is locked.

No alerts are being sent
Verify the notification day is not set to Do not send. Also check whether the current week has three or more holidays; alerts are skipped during those weeks.

Missing assignments are showing as zero instead of a fixed percentage
Enable Give fixed percentage to assignments marked Missing and set the percentage value. Both settings must be configured.

Teachers can create assignments on weekends
The Enable selecting a weekend or school holiday for assignment due date setting is enabled. Turn it off to block weekend and holiday due dates.

Students see assignments from before they enrolled
Enable Don't show resources, activities, or assignments before enrollment date. Verify the student's enrollment date is correctly set in School → User → Student.

Grading categories are locked and teachers cannot recategorize assignments
The grading cut-off date for that term has passed. Adjust the cut-off date if teachers need more time, or manually update the assignment's category as an administrator.