Introduction

Alternate Assignment Due Dates

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Alternate Assignment Due Dates

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Alternate Assignment Due Dates

This accommodation is provided to help compensate for the time a student loses completing academic tasks due to their functional limitations.

This accommodation should be requested by the student on an as-needed basis.

The student must discuss and arrange each and every deadline extension request with the instructor/faculty member.

This accommodation does not mean:

  • Open-ended deadlines
  • Submitting the work after the assessment has been graded and feedback or answers are provided
  • Elimination of all deadlines and permission to submit work all at once at the end of the course
  • Submitting assignments at the student’s convenience
  • Automatic re-weighting of grades to compensate for assignments not submitted
  • *Exceptions can apply

Repeated requests for extensions on the same assignment or for several assignments in the same course may affect a student’s ability to participate in and successfully meet course/program learning outcomes.

Faculty Responsibility

  • When you receive an accommodation letter, reach out to the student via email to invite a discussion about how you can support their learning. 

 

  • When a student requests an alternate assignment due date consider the following and use this information to inform your decision about the alternate assignment date:
    • Ask the student – “How many assignments do you have due next week?  We want to ensure this doesn’t interfere with your other commitments.”
    • Is this resulting in accumulative extensions in the same course?  
    • When making a decision on the length of an extension, consider when you are marking and taking up the answers in class. Example: a large project may take 2 weeks to mark and then take up, whereas a quiz may take a couple of hours and you can take it up the next class. So it may be appropriate in the first example to extend by a week, and the second by a ½ day/full day depending on when your next class is.

 

Student Responsibility

  • It is the student’s responsibility to contact the instructor/faculty to discuss each and every assignment extension request, as soon as they are aware of the need to utilize this accommodation.

 

  • Students are advised to contact faculty before the original due date; however, some students do encounter disability-related issues which may prevent them from doing so (e.g. hospitalization).

 

  • It is the student’s responsibility to keep track of all of their assessment due dates. They are encouraged to use some sort of tracking system (agenda, calendar, apps on their phone, etc.)