Excuse Assignment in Google Classroom

 Coming soon, you will be able to excuse an assignment for a student in Google Classroom. If a student has an assignment listed as missing, you can select the three dots and change it to Excused. (if you don’t see this feature yet, just wait. It is being slowly rolled out)

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