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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone please explain how the extended time accommodation is applied with regard to Canvas Due Dates and Deadlines?  I think understand the standard MCPS grading policy for Due Dates (full credit if submitted before DD) and Deadlines (at least 50% credit if any attempt is made before DL), but not whether extended time modifies *those* dates specifically.

For example, an in-class assignment that most students finish the same class, but for which the Canvas Due Date is midnight the next day and the Deadline is midnight at the end of the week.  When would a student with "1.5x extended time on all assignments" need to have the assignment submitted for full or partial credit?  More specifically, is there a way for me as the parent to extrapolate the allowed amount of extended time from what I see in Canvas?[/quote]
Teacher here. Extended time applies to due dates, not deadlines. The deadline should be set such that extended time students get their extended time before (or by) the deadline. Teachers can't give all kids extended time. They must give students with ET more time than the general population. So if the teacher extends the due date by 2 days for everyone, the ET student gets 3 more days.

The grading policy is 
* full credit by due date (for both regular and ET students)
* teachers may give a -10% late penalty after due date but by deadline
* after deadline assignment receives 50%. If teacher has documented multiple attempts to communicate that the assignment is missing, they can assign a 0. Work turned in after deadline might be given 50% instead of 0, but there would have to have been some sort of conversation and agreement about that before the work is turned in.

Extended time applies to the duration of the assignment. You cannot tell by the due date how much additional time a student has, unless the teacher is assigning things with separate due dates for ET students (which can be time consuming if you have a lot of ET students.) Personally, I wouldn't do that generally because ET time students should be working towards finishing on time with everyone else. Providing later dates for everything just sets them up to be constantly behind in class.
Examples of technically correct and actual practice:
* assigned at start of class, due at end of class; 50% ET time students technically get 20 more minutes, but realistically can finish at home and turn in start of class next day.
* assigned in class and due by midnight task is expected to take 1 hr total; ET students technically only get 1.5 hours, but practically a teacher might set due by midnight following night
* assignment due in two days, ET student is due in 3 days.

For myself, if I have a project or something that will take several days and it matters that everyone is done by a certain date (presentations, end of quarter), I will clearly state the assignment start date, the amount of time it should take (# days in class + amount of homework time expected) and the due date for both regular and ET on the paper itself. I might make the assignment available early to everyone so that students can plan around other activities, but that doesn't mean the ET due date gets even later.  For smaller classwork tasks, I have been converting worksheets into using Canvas New Quizzes. Students can work on paper and collaborate with peers, as they see fit during class time. At home (or next day start of class) they will put their information into a Canvas quiz that has a timer on it, which automatically gives ET students their correct extended time.

Canvas automatically marks assignments turned in after the due date as late, but it doesn't take off a late penalty unless the teacher sets it up to do so automatically. I don't do this because there are too many legitimate reasons that something could be late, so I don't want it automatically applied. Instead, students know which assignments I will apply the late penalty to ahead of time, and then I manually take off points and comment with -10% late. I do leave the late flag on all assignments that are late - it's important for parents, students, and admin to see the pattern. I remove it for ET students who were within their 50% extra time.[/quote]

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