Remove student from an assigned task

GracianoTorrao I have the same question.  Now that we are online "crisis" teaching due to the Coronavirus, there are some students who were initially added to the assigned task, but due to unforseen circumstances or other situations, cannot participate in the online learning.  We would like to excuse these students from having to complete work, but are unable to remove them from the task, which creates a long list of "past due" assignments in the teacher's window, as these assignments are never resolved.  Can Microsoft Teams provide a solution for this?