Late Submission

You can set late submission for an activity so that students can submit work after the due date has passed. Optionally, you can assign a late penalty to subtract scoring points. You can set late submission for CNOW, SAM, Aplia, Assessments, and MindApp CXP activities.

Note Setting late submission does not change the number of available submissions for the activity.

Due Dates and Extensions

Due dates can be extended for activities or for individual students. Students can take assignments past the set due date if late submission is enabled.

If you grant an extension for an assignment already set for late submission, the late submission period begins when the extended due date expires.
Extending or removing due dates after students have submitted late work will remove any late penalty deductions that were previously applied. This change might take up to 5 minutes to be shown in the gradebook.

Automatic submission

Most in-progress activities are automatically submitted when the activity is due. Activities automatically submitted on the original due date do not receive late penalties.

During the late submission period, students can reopen an automatically submitted activity and resubmit it for grading with late penalties.

If an activity is in progress when the late submission period ends, it is automatically submitted for grading and late penalties apply.

Note Most SAM activities cannot be reopened. SAM projects can only be reopened if:

The project does not have a time limit.
The final available attempt was auto-submitted on the due date.
The project has been made available by late submission or due date extension.

To reopen a SAM project, select the project on the learning path. Click Review, then click Re-activate attempt.

Late Penalties

Set a late penalty to subtract percentage points from the student's assignment grade for assignments submitted after the due date.

Deductions are calculated from total possible points and not earned points. For example, a 10% late penalty is set to deduct from a potential 100% score. In this scenario, if your student receives a 90%, the score is reduced to 80% after penalty.

Credit / No Credit

If you set a late penalty for a credit / no credit assignment, the late penalty is subtracted from the full credit score. For example, a credit / no credit assignment with a 20% late penalty that is submitted late could only receive a final score of either 80% (full credit minus 20%) or 0% (no credit). This deduction is calculated from total possible points and not earned points.

Restrictions

Late submissions do not apply to:

Activities whose due date is the same as the course end date
Non-MindTap activities
Inline activities

Late penalties do not apply to manually graded activities.