by Mary Cooch.
Hi Steve. If you look at 14 14.1.5 Default assignment settings in Assignment settings it explains that whatever is chosen as Advanced will appear when a teacher clicks 'more' and Locked means a teacher cannot change this.
It's not possible to remove the requirement for a description for an assignment because this is where teachers say what the students have to do, and it is considered not enough just to put that in the title. You might be able to remove it in the code; someone else would have to tell you how to do that. As for the Quiz activity description, I am not aware that this is required anyway. I can have a quiz with no description.