Hi all,

We have a large deployment of Totara containing several courses with hundreds of assignment submissions in some activities. This slows down some of the loading for those grading new submissions, and we'd like to deprecate the activity in place of a new activity. There seem to be issues with every possibility I've investigated so far, as ideally we'd want learners to be able to see their submissions in the previous activity when relevant but all new submissions go to a new activity.

The most obvious solution, setting a cutoff date and adding a new activity, results in learners who currently have submissions pending in the previous activity having their assessments seemingly disappear for a while, and extra attempts given to those who've had multiple attempts at the previous activity (we allow a max of 3). Only allowing users to see the previous activity if they've completed it also results in a similar issue.

Ideally we'd be able to set a rule like "If leaner has viewed previous activity, show the original, if not, show the new one", but this doesn't seem possible without mucking up our course completion.

If anyone has any advice or has dealt with a similar issue before, we'd love to hear back. Thank you.