How do time limit extensions affect due dates, late due dates, and time limits?
Our time limit extension feature allows you to give specific students more time to complete a timed assignment. Time limit extensions can be given for one particular timed assignment or for all timed assignments in the course. Students who do not have time limit extensions will not be able to continue working on the assignment after the due date or late due date for the assignment passes, regardless of how much time remains on their timers.
Note that if you give a student a course- or assignment-level time limit extension, then assignment due dates and late due dates will be pushed out by the amount of extra time you are giving the student. However, if you give a student an extension on an assignment's due date and/or late due date, and then you give them a time limit extension (at the course or assignment level), the student will have the extra time to complete the timed assignment, but the assignment dates will stay the same and will not be pushed out.
For example, let's say your assignment has a release date of 8:00 am, a due date of 9:00 am, a late due date of 10:00 am, and a time limit of 60 minutes. Let's say Student A does not have a time limit extension and Student B gets a 2x time limit extension on the assignment (meaning double the amount of time, or 120 minutes total). Below is what the due dates and times would look like for these students.
STUDENT A
- After the 8:00 am release, they have a 9:00 am due date, a 10:00 am late due date, and 60 mins to finish once they open the assignment.
- If Student A starts at 8:00 am, they will have until 9:00 am (60 mins) to finish the assignment and will not be marked as Late.
- If Student A starts at 8:30 am, they will have until 9:30 am (60 mins) to finish the assignment but if they're not finished by 9:00 am they will be marked Late.
- If Student A starts at 9:59 am, they will be marked as Late and will only have one minute to finish the assignment.
STUDENT B (2x extension; double the amount of time)
- After the 8:00 am release, they have a 10:00 am due date, an 11:00 am late due date, and 120 mins to finish once they open the assignment.
- If Student B starts at 8:00 am, they can work until 10:00 am (120 mins) and will not be marked as Late.
- If Student B starts at 9:00 am, they can work until 11:00 am (120 mins), but if they're not finished before 10:00 am they will be marked as Late.
- If Student B starts at 9:30 am, they can work until 11:00 am (they'll only have 90 mins, not 120), and if they're not finished before 10:00 am they will be marked as Late.
- If Student B starts at 10:00 am, they can work until 11:00 am (they'll only have 60 mins, not 120), and they will be marked as Late.
- If you extend Student B's assignment due date to 10:30 am and they begin working at 10:00 am, they can work until 11:00 am (they'll only have 60 mins, not 120), but if they're not finished before 10:30 am they will be marked as Late.
