Keywords: Schoology, due dates, grading, disabled due dates, gradebook.

Aliases: period, grading period, grading columns, grades, feature flag, courses.

Issue: Teachers report that they can't set due dates (it is greyed out) for added grading columns in the Schoology Gradebook.

Solution: There are 2 parts of the solution. 

1) All assignments have to have a Due Date. If you see assignments without a due date ask the teacher to set that.

2) The due date can be activated through a feature flag that is controlled by the Schoology support team. They are the only ones that can do that. So, have the Help Desk (or a Schoology Support Contact for the district) contact support and ask them to enable it for a particular school. This setting can be activated for individual schools or the whole district. 

After Schoology support enables this setting, the due dates on a Gradin Column should look like this: