Generating Missing Assignments Report

The Missing Assignments report is a software-supplied report that enables you to determine if there are any students who have missing assignments for a Course. The date range for the report determines which assignments will be checked. This report provides detailed information about the assignments that were missed, such as the student's name, Student Number, grade level, Assignment, and Assigned Date. For example, you could run this report to determine if students in your Biology course are missing a term paper that was assigned.

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Audio Transcript

Generating the Missing Assignments report allows you to view the students who have missing assignments for a course. Within Teacher Access, we’ll head over to the Missing Assignments report within the Gradebook module. From here, we could choose a prompt template or create a new one if needed. The section we want to run this report for will need to be defined here. If we want to limit the report by student, we could fill out the Full Name Range Low and high fields, or the Grade Level Range Low and high fields. We’ll leave the Show Student Pronouns and Show Gender Identity fields as they are for this example. After the Grade Level Range Low and high fields, we have the Students Based on Ranges Above field, which can also be used to filter by specific students. We won’t filter our students with this option, so it can be left blank. The Group By, For This Class Only, Exclude Dropped Students, Exclude Students Without Missing Assignments, and Due Date Range fields are correct for this example, so we’ll leave those as they are. If we wanted to narrow down the results that display on our report by a certain grading period, that could be done here as well. We don’t want to hide assignment details, so we’ll select No for the corresponding field. Let’s page break by student for this example. If we wanted to hide the signature line, we could leave Yes selected. For this example, we’ll update this to be No so a parent signature line displays on the report. We could also determine how the students’ names will display. For our example, it can be left as is. Once we've set the prompts the way we’d like, we can select Run Report. The report displays according to our selections. Now that you know how to generate the Missing Assignments report, you can be sure that you’re staying on top of students’ missing assignments!

Generating the Missing Assignments report allows you to view the students who have missing assignments for a course. Within Teacher Access, we’ll head over to the Missing Assignments report within the Gradebook module. From here, we could choose a prompt template or create a new one if needed. The section we want to run this report for will need to be defined here. If we want to limit the report by student, we could fill out the Full Name Range Low and high fields, or the Grade Level Range Low and high fields. We’ll leave the Show Student Pronouns and Show Gender Identity fields as they are for this example. After the Grade Level Range Low and high fields, we have the Students Based on Ranges Above field, which can also be used to filter by specific students. We won’t filter our students with this option, so it can be left blank. The Group By, For This Class Only, Exclude Dropped Students, Exclude Students Without Missing Assignments, and Due Date Range fields are correct for this example, so we’ll leave those as they are. If we wanted to narrow down the results that display on our report by a certain grading period, that could be done here as well. We don’t want to hide assignment details, so we’ll select No for the corresponding field. Let’s page break by student for this example. If we wanted to hide the signature line, we could leave Yes selected. For this example, we’ll update this to be No so a parent signature line displays on the report. We could also determine how the students’ names will display. For our example, it can be left as is. Once we've set the prompts the way we’d like, we can select Run Report. The report displays according to our selections. Now that you know how to generate the Missing Assignments report, you can be sure that you’re staying on top of students’ missing assignments!



  1. Select Menu > Teacher Access > Gradebook.
  2. Select Missing Assignments under Reports.

    You see the Run Report screen.

  3. Complete the appropriate fields.

    Required fields are identified with an asterisk. You must complete required fields before you can save your work.

    1. Optional: Under the Prompt Template heading, enter the Prompt Template or click the Down Arrow icon to choose from the drop-down list.

      If the prompt template you wish to use does not exist, you can create a new Prompt Template.

    2. Under the Prompts heading, enter one or more Sections or click the Magnifying Glass icon to choose from the drop-down list.

      You can click outside of the selection box once you have made your selections.

      Entering a section enables the Students Based on Ranges Above and Grading Period fields.

    3. Enter the Full Name Range Low if you wish to limit the report by student name.

      This is the starting value for the name range. For example, if you wish to only include students with last names that start with A - F, you could enter AAA.

      Leaving the field blank will include all values.

    4. Enter the Full Name Range High if you wish to limit the report by student name.

      This is the ending value for the name range. For example, if you wish to only include students with last names that start with A - F, you could enter FZZ.

      Leaving the field blank will include all values.

    5. Indicate whether you wish to Show Student Pronouns using the drop-down list.
    6. Indicate whether you wish to Show Gender Identity using the drop-down list.
    7. Enter the Grade Level Range Low if you wish to limit the report by grade level.

      This is the lowest grade level that you want to pull into the report. For example, if you want to include students in grades 6 - 8, you would enter 6.

      Leaving the field blank will include all values.

    8. Enter the Grade Level Range High if you wish to limit the report by grade level.

      This is the highest grade level that you want to pull into the report. For example, if you want to include students in grades 6 - 8, you would enter 8.

      Leaving the field blank will include all values.

    9. Enter one or more Students Based on Ranges Above or click the Magnifying Glass icon to choose from the drop-down list, if you wish to limit the report by specific students.

      Only students who meet the ranges selected in the previous fields are available for selection. This enables you to further narrow the students included on the report.

      You can click outside of the selection box once you have made your selections.

      Leaving the field blank will include all values.

    10. Choose the Group By option from the drop-down list.

      If you selected Student, the For This Class Only field displays. Continue to the next sub-step.

      If you selected Class, skip to sub-step l.

    11. Indicate whether you wish to sort For This Class Only using the drop-down list.
    12. Indicate whether you wish to Exclude Dropped Students using the drop-down list.
    13. Indicate whether you wish to Exclude Students Without Missing Assignments using the drop-down list.
    14. Choose the Due Date Range from the drop-down list.

      If you selected Grading Period, the Grading Period field displays. Continue to the next sub-step.

      If you selected Date Range, the Start Date and End Date fields display. Skip to sub-step p.

    15. Enter one or more Grading Periods or click the Magnifying Glass icon to choose from the drop-down list.

      Leaving the field blank will include all values.

      You can click outside of the selection box once you have made your selections.

      Skip to sub-step r.

    16. Enter the Start Date or click the Calendar 31 icon to choose a date using the calendar.

      Alternatively, you can click the Relative date icon to select a custom relative date, such as five weeks ago, or a predefined relative date, such as the current date. This option is helpful when setting up a scheduled report. For example, if you have a scheduled report that runs every Monday and you want to run that report for the previous Monday through Friday, you would set the parameters for eight days ago through three days ago.

    17. Enter the End Date or click the Calendar 31 icon to choose a date using the calendar.

      Alternatively, you can click the Relative date icon to select a custom relative date, such as five weeks ago, or a predefined relative date, such as the current date. This option is helpful when setting up a scheduled report. For example, if you have a scheduled report that runs every Monday and you want to run that report for the previous Monday through Friday, you would set the parameters for eight days ago through three days ago.

    18. Indicate whether you wish to Hide Assignment Details using the drop-down list.
      If you select No, the report will display the Due Date, assignment name, Assigned Date, Category, Max Score, and average percent for the assignment.
    19. Indicate whether you wish to Page Break by Student using the drop-down list.

      If you select Yes, the report will display each student on a separate page.

      If you select No, the report will display all students in one continuous list.

      If you selected Yes, the Hide Signature Line field displays. Continue to the next sub-step.

      If you selected No, skip to sub-step u.

    20. Indicate whether you wish to Hide Signature Line using the drop-down list.

      If you select No, the report will display a signature line at the bottom of the page.

    21. Choose the Student Name Display from the drop-down list.
  4. Click Run Report near the top left of the screen to run the report.

    If necessary, you can click Reset Prompts to clear the parameters and start over.

    The system generates and displays the Missing Assignments report according to the parameters you specified.

Result(s)

You have successfully generated the Missing Assignments report. From here, you can use any of the report run options, such as rerun, save, export, download, or print. You can also run the report specifications to generate a report that provides details about how the report was configured.