Why are students able to submit an assignment after the due date?
Answer
The due date is the date and time when the assignment is due. Student assignments submitted after the due date will be marked as late in the Gradebook. In the gradebook, light blue indicates a late assignment.
If you want to create a date range for students to view and submit an assignment, you can set availability dates. Availability dates can also be called lock dates.
- Available From: the date and time when the Assignments will become available to students.
- If a due date does not include a time, the listed date defaults to the course's default due time.
- Students cannot view assignment content until after the Available from date has passed.
- Until Date: the date and time when students can no longer submit the assignment.
- If no time is set, this time defaults to 11:59 pm for the course time zone, and the assignment will close at 12:00:00 am of the following day.
If you do not want to allow any late submissions, you will need to set the Until Date as the Due Date. For example, if you want to allow students to view the assignment at any time with a due date of September 19 at 11:59 pm but do not want to accept any late submissions, also set the Until Date as September 19 at 11:59 pm.