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Note that this neglects some complexities around "late" items and resubmission drafts for now

Work done specifically

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with the Assignments code

• Working through the service API and implementation to understand how each entity's status is calculated.
• Going through the views and following the transitions to see what actions are available at each.
• Reimplementation all of the state determination and thinking through resolution into a stable student pserspective (even when submission is not yet possible, etc.).
• Making a data feed available to ask for the status of an assignment for a named student, which does not disclose any more than the tool

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