Due date exceptions - 3900.46
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors, Students
In the past, instructors could cater to specific student's needs by:
- allowing additional attempts
- changing item visibility
Now instructors may accommodate special circumstances by also allowing due date exceptions. This exception has been added to the existing exceptions panel.
Image 1. Exceptions panel
Key considerations:
- Due date exceptions support is for individual tests and assignments only.
- If an assignment or test does not have a due date, an exception cannot be set.
- If an instructor wishes to remove the due date on an assignment or test, the instructor must first remove all due date exceptions.
Image 2. Banner warning when instructor attempts to delete a due date on an assessment with due date exceptions
- To find students with the due date exception, instructors may access the submission list view page. Students with the clock icon next to their name have the due date exception.
Image 3. Submissions list view; clock icon for students with the due date exception.
- Instructors may grant due date exceptions in combination with other exception types.
- Automatic zeros respect due date exceptions. Automatic zeros are only applied if students with the due date exception do not submit on time.
- The “prohibit late submission” and “prohibit new attempts” options respect due date exceptions. These settings only apply if students with the due date exception do not submit on time.
- Students with a due date exception will see the excepted date in:
- Ultra Base Navigation
- Activity Stream
- Calendar
- Grades Page
- Email, depending on a user’s notification settings
- Ultra-Course
- Assignment or Test Details & Information
- Course Outline
- Calendar
- Grades
- Ultra Base Navigation
For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.