Deduct X% or X points per day for each day an assignment submission is late

[seth]

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As an instructor, I want to specify that late submissions to a given assignment have X% or X points deducted from their possible score for each day the submission is late. This setting would be configurable at the course, assignment group, and individual assignment level. I should have the option to manually override late penalties for a given student.

transferred from the old Community

Originally posted by: Neal Legler

Special thanks for contributions from: Mike Griffiths, C. David Frankel, Annaleah Morrow, Desiree Shultz

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For more information, please read through the https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-13886 .

[gouldingm]

In the real world you get credit for late work, but not as much as for timely work. I'd like my courses to run the same way! Thanks!

[cohenf]

I disagree about "real world." I used to report survey research results to the marketing team of a major corporation and asking for an extension would've been seen as poor form and would've, no doubt, lost me the contract. Punctuality, meeting deadlines, and showing up on time are very important real-world skills. On another point, setting deadlines permits me to distribute the workload of my lessons in a manner that makes them more manageable for students. Just letting students submit their work whenever they want means that all their learning will be rushed prior to the last day of class. So, I disagree with you on "poor educational practice" as well. Learning is best facilitated with the use of properly distributed deadlines.

[adavid7]

Another way of handling late submissions and grading, which we use in some courses, is to give every student, say, five free late days per course. They can use them any way they like, without having to specify the reason. The first five days that any combination of late submissions on various assignments (one assignment is five days late, or five assignments are each one day late, etc.) incur no grading penalty. After that, a percentage is applied for every late day, as others have articulated in this thread.

This cuts down on having a lot of "my dog ate my homework" requests for extensions. Actually, these days, the request is more likely to be "the cloud ate my homework!"

[tsawicki]

I really like your suggestion about how this could work!  The ability to treat part of an assignment as on time and other parts as late would be ideal.

[tsawicki]

As a few others have informed you, late assignments are a major issue when it comes to releasing the answers to an assignment so students can reflect and use assignments and assessments as a formative tool.  If someone was late and it cost everyone on their team their bonus, paycheck , or even job, I think most would agree the late person should be penalized, not everyone else!

[cohenf]

How is the development team progressing on this front, please? Thanks, in advance, for your response.

[kmatson]

Frank great question, we are anxiously awaiting for this to roll out as well.

Karen Matson

[Renee_Carney]

Frank & Karen

You'll want to follow the Canvas Studio: Gradebook Enhancements V1​ project!

[kmatson]

Renee,

That is a nice document but when will you implement the late penalty or do we have to wait for the total overhaul? Any timeline on the overhaul if that turns out to be what we are waiting for?

Thank you so much,

Karen