Two New Features: Transfer Student Work / Excused Assignments

We just released two new features that have been requested many times by our faculty members: the ability to transfer students (with their work) from one section to another and the ability to excuse an assignment.

Transfer Student Work

You now have the ability to transfer a student from one section to another, within the same course.

Work is transferable from one section to another, if the assignment is common to both sections, and was initially scheduled to each section within the same calendar month. If the student entered an access code for the class, the code will be transferred to the new section as well.

To transfer a student and their work from one section to another, go to your roster for the section and click the student's name. This action will bring up the Edit Student window where you can make changes to the student's full name, email, etc.

To Transfer the student to a new section, click the Transfer Student tab, select the section you wish to transfer the student to, and click Complete Transfer. You will be notified if some work can not be transferred.

Note: this transfer feature is currently not available if a student has transferred between two separate WebAssign courses. It only works between two sections of the same course. If the courses are not the same, you must drop the student from the old course and add the student manually to the other. Work cannot be copied over.

Excuse an Assignment

We have received many requests to allow a student to be "excused" from an assignment and to ignore the total score for that assignment. This is now possible!

To excuse an assignment for a student, go to the Scores page for the assignment you want to excuse.

Click the assignment total for the student who is to be excused (even if their current total is ND or NS) to open the "Excuse or Override Assignment" popup.

To excuse the student, click the new Excuse Assignment radio button. If you prefer, you can record a note to remind yourself why this assignment was excused. (The student cannot view the note.)

You can also access the popup from the ScoreView page by clicking the total for the assignment and student you want to excuse.

In the GradeBook, excused assignments still show up but will be marked as excused (on both the faculty view and the student view, which is shown below).

We hope you find these new features useful. Our goal is to keep making WebAssign better all the time.

If you have any suggestions for improvements, please let us know!

The WebAssign Team