why does this matter?
Many instructors have long been in the habit of having students post late assignments in a separate “Late Homework” topic. With the new Gradebook, this practice must change.
If you accept late work from your students, they must post it in the original assignment topic — not in a late homework topic and not in the Instructor’s Office and not in your Mailbox. (This keeps all the work for an assignment in the same place.) You must post their grade in that original topic. Otherwise, the online learning system will not be able to factor the grade into its calculations.
Here’s what you need to do:
- Please delete any existing Late Homework topics that you have created. (Go to the Global Topics page to delete these topics.)
- To allow students to submit their late work, you must reopen the assignment topic — that is, you need to (1) edit the relevant topic and (2) extend its close date so that students can post.
Reminder: When a student posts work after the due date but before the closing date, the system automatically flags their post with a red “LATE” marker. So be sure that you extend only the closing date and NOT the due date, to ensure that late work is properly identified.
- Don’t forget to tell students where to post their late work for an assignment.
- You might also find it useful to require students to tag you, when they submit their work. This is especially helpful if the topic where the late work is posted has already been archived.
Note: If a student’s work is submitted after a progress grading period has passed, you will need to specify why the grade is being changed. (Learn more: See "What changes have been made to assignment grading?" in Grading with the Gradebook)
REALITY CHECKThe above is the best practice. However, sometimes, despite your best efforts, students might submit late work through the Mailbox or post it in the Instructor’s Office. What to do in such cases? - Review their work wherever it was submitted.
- Then open the grading interface for the relevant assignment, and enter their grade there.
- In the Grade Comments field, make a note about where the work was submitted, so that there is a record — and so that the assignment can be easily located in the future.
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