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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a chronic illness that requires me to spend 50% of my existence in the bathroom. I understand chronic illnesses can be rough. But let me tell you now, it never made a difference between me submitting something at 11:59 and 11:59:01.

If his illness was the reason for the delay, it still shouldn’t have come down to a game of minutes.
Professors don’t budge on stuff. It’s how they turn teenagers into adults. It’s unfortunate, but he will recover from this grade dip. [/quote]

Thank you for this.

As I said, DS takes full responsibility for submitting last minute as he failed to ask for more time. He doesn't blame his illness for the delay.

The only reason why he is considering appealing the professor's decision is that if the deadline is 11:59pm, should something that is submitted at 11:59 be late? [/quote]

Yes the prof should have accepted it. But he might not believe your son. If I were your son I’d write the tech dept that programs the deadline and ask them if it should have been programmed 11:59:59. Ignore the jerks who say you are helicoptering.

Anyone on A DCUM education forum is helicoptering. [/quote]

Why would anyone wait till 11:59 to submit something? What if your computer crashed, Internet is down, etc. [/quote]

This. Professor here, teaching with Blackboard for many years. You would be surprised how many students wait until 11:59 to submit. It is a bad habit to form, especially as there could easily be technology issues to interfere with ontime submission. My students have at least a week to complete any assignment. I tell them not to wait until last minute. Grant deadlines, fellowship deadlines are hard. You cannot reach out to fellowship administrators and ask for 5 sec extension bc you missed the deadline. Some students need to learn to break bad habits.

That being said, I am not usually a hard a** about any assignment submitted over night (up until 4,5 am). I do make exception for FINAL, large assignments. Final projects need to be submitted on time so I have time to grade in a reasonable time frame.  Students are usually working on finally projects for months. I communicate how important it is to submit certain projects in time. If they have an extenuating circumstance, it is there responsibility to acquire accommodations from student services ( to retain privacy of their issue), or reach out to me beforehand. “I had no internet at 11:59 pm” is not a valid excuse.

That being said, the 11:59 pm deadline and frantic emails about missed deadline by 1 minute got so tiring , I switched all my deadlines to 6 am. Students like to work into the wee hours, and I now have much fewer last minute assignments.

A student missing a deadline on one assignment should NOT be taken up change of command. It’s the professor’s discretion to enforce deadlines. 
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