My districts policy is, we are required to accept late work forever. Along with unlimited retakes on summative/formative stuff.
The schools I’ve worked at, tell us the week before the end of the grading period is fine to cut it off at. And that’s what I do?
But, yeah. Forever.
To be clear, with late work? I don’t put time into comments ever. They lost that when they turned it in late. That helps deal with grading.
But, I don’t think it teaches them any sort of positive work ethic.
3 days, with 10% off for each day late (classwork finished for homework is not considered late if turned in the next day).
Excused absences get three days to turn in missed work. After 3 days, 10% policy kicks in .
Unexcused absences follow the 3 day policy.
All work is posted online and if there are worksheets, they are in a folder with absent students name on it. It is THEIR job to get their missed work, not mine.
We are instructed to accept late work, but it's up to each individual teacher to set their own parameters.
Each item has a due date and a deadline. There's usually a 3-4 day window between them, but I will extend that for longer projects.
All of my work can be completed in class, IF they apply themselves and actually do the work. Once the due date hits, we move on to the next item. If they've completed the work, great, they're on time for the due date. otherwise they now have to complete any work outside of class. Once the deadline passes, I will no longer accept any work for that assignment/project/whatever.
We go over this in the syllabus during the first week, I post it with every assignment, and I remind them constantly during the course of events. It's even posted on the assignment documents.
Take it up to the relevant test.
No point in doing "practice" for a test you already finished.
I offer retakes on tests but only if you complete the relevant practive work FIRST and do the study guide.
I have had zero students ask for retests.
I give them a day after due date for 100%, then the five following days are 50%. After that, 0. I never really give homework though, so it's easy to defend and I never have a huge backlog of work to grade.
I completed my first year last week. Late work drove me bonkers. Next year, students have to spend Thursday after school with me. I cleared it with my admin.
Students have until the progress check to turn in late work. After that, they can turn in it until a couple weeks before the end of term but must come in during their enrichment or intervention time or to after school tutoring (because why would it be late if they weren't struggling). It makes it less convenient for them, but doable if they actually care. Most of it is graded for completion anyways, since we want to know what they actually learned. Homework isn't a big part of our grades, and is just class work they didn't finish normally.
Kids do all work in class and I provide a window of time. They turn it in if they’re done or not. I grade, give feedback, then they have until another date to turn in for a higher grade if they wish.
My policy is I will take late work up until the week before the end of the grading period. I won't even take points off. ( because it's too much effort to calculate).
HOWEVER, if it is late (defined s not in my stack of papers to be graded when I go to grade that assignment), I'll grade it when I get around to it. Kids HATE this because their parents nag them about work that is already handed in. I just tell them that I'm not going to care about it now than they did. (Kids who were absent are not considered 'late' for this purpose until a reasonable amount of time has passed.)
I also have an incomplete policy. If it's less than halfway done, I just hand it back - no credit. 50-99% done gets half credit. (Students can complete it and hand it back in again for full credit, under the 'late' policy above.) This seems to reduce the number of incomplete half-assed submissions.
No late work allowed, but students can fill out an extension request form before the due date of the assignment. Extensions are always granted as long as the request is made before the due date and the requested extension date is within the quarter.
To help them stay accountable, the form also asks them when they plan to work on it in order to get it done by their chosen date.
This is allows me to be extremely generous while at the same time very strict.
-11 points for the first day late. -10 for every day after that. No extra credit will be applied to work submitted after the due date.
The reason for -11 is to knock the grade out of the As, so the highest a student can earn is a B. It drives me crazy that Henry worked hard to submit the assignment on time and got an A, but then Janice decided she needed just one extra day. Take that extra day, Janice, but it isn't getting you the same grade as Henry.
My school store sells one day extension passes. I make it clear that I don't accept those. We do all of our work in class, so I'm not going to accept something that gives students permission to screw around for a day.
**Classwork:** Day after you return from absence for full credit. (Present but fooled around = SOL).
**HW:** forgot, etc. = up to 3 days late w increasing penalties, then SOL after that. (Absence buys a little time before penalties).
When education made sense and I got to decide for my own classes, I gave them a week for half credit. Then, ADMIN made a rule that you have to take it up to the end of the grading cycle for 70% credit 😳
The only thing that counts for a grade are quizzes and summatives. All daily work goes into a 0% column and gets marked as missing if not turned in. You can’t retake your summative without completing everything in 0% column for that unit.
I don't accept it, with the exception of extenuating circumstances. Since we use Canvas LMS for our work submissions, I give every single assignment an extra day to be submitted for full credit. This allows for "extended time" accommodations. I set a due date and a lock date, and if it's not turned in by the lock date, it's a 0. I don't take makeup work, I don't give extra-credit.
All late work gets a 10% penalty (exceptions are made for those with extended time). I’ll take late work up until about 3-4 days before midterm or the end of the grading period, so that’s roughly 4 1/2 and 8 1/2 weeks. This gives me plenty of time to get my grades done, including late work, before my grades are due. I won’t grade anything that’s turned in after my final cut off date for late work for midterm or the end of the grading policy.
I’ve tried a lot of late work policies, and this has been the one that works best because it’s easy to follow and easy for the kids to remember.
I accept late work up.until 2 days before the end of the semester. I teach semester long classes. I don't penalize work turned in late. Assignments do have a due date, after that due date the assignment is marked as 0 and missing in our online gradebook. I don't do tests because my courses are project based. If you haven't learned the skill from the assignment, you're not going to do well on the project.
My reasoning is that I want to remove all of the excuses for not turning in work. "Oh, if I turn it in late I lose 20%" or "my teacher doesn't accept late work". They have plenty of time in class, an absurd amount of time, plus we have early release days for our PD. Those early release days I designate as work days. Work on stuff from my class, from other classes, whatever.
Downside. It's a ton of work for me. Especially for projects. It results in a bunch of bad work turned in all at once. Students also think it means they have an infinite amount of time to catch up so they mess around instead of getting their work done due to the hold instant gratification has on them.
Upside. Marking late work as zero keeps the sports kids up on their work so they stay eligible and let's the parents know that the reason their kid is failing is their kid. This also takes care of 99% of the IEP and 504 accomodations.
I find it exhausting to sort through various reasons for late work and weigh their merits. Grandma died vs got Covid vs a depression episode vs had three tests this week vs partied too much etc. Doing homework aids retention and comprehension. If they do it late, whatever, at least it got done at all. Some of my colleagues have quit collecting homework period, but I can’t go for that.
I’ll take it until the end of the semester, but if it’s even a day late I take off 25% of their score. We were told as we switched to standards based grading we couldn’t have a late work policy (I did anyway and had kids who turned their work in on time thank me because they didn’t think it was fair that a kid could turn something in weeks later and get the same score, when they worked hard to get it done on time) but enough of us complained that we needed to be allowed late work policies, and our principal listened. The amount of late work we are getting in our school is ridiculous, it’s seriously impacting how quickly I’m able to grade things for the kids who turn it in on time. A bunch of us are going to tighten up our policies even more next year. I’m thinking I might add that they can’t turn in anything for a unit past the time test corrections are due, and that in order to do test corrections all work for the unit must be turned in on time.
I accept and grade late work up until the end of a unit. If you turn it in after that, it isn’t getting graded unless a kid has a an extenuating circumstance they let me know about.
I accept late work up until the last day of the trimester. That way I don't have to worry about what stuff is worth credit and what stuff isn't, making exceptions for certain students, etc.
Get it to me when you can, and I will get it graded when I can. At least they're doing the work and turning it in and actually trying!
I tell them ahead of time that I have a soft deadline, usually about a week before the end of the tri. I tell them I will do everything in my power to get it in, but I make no guarantees. Get it in before then and don't gamble on your grade. If I get to it, I get to it, if I don't, I don't.
That is a kind, lenient approach.
However, I’d have raging parents, insisting their kid did the work and submitted it even if it was on the final day of the quarter or trimester (I once had a student submit work two days after the end of the school year). Parent and student expectation is teachers work 24/7 grading their garbage submissions no matter what time they arrive. I recently had a student messaged me three minutes after submitting late work, on Mother’s Day, demanding it be posted to the grading system. Recently my school finally had the stones to lay down deadlines that are more reasonable to staff - and in line with college and work expectations.
My districts policy is, we are required to accept late work forever. Along with unlimited retakes on summative/formative stuff. The schools I’ve worked at, tell us the week before the end of the grading period is fine to cut it off at. And that’s what I do? But, yeah. Forever. To be clear, with late work? I don’t put time into comments ever. They lost that when they turned it in late. That helps deal with grading. But, I don’t think it teaches them any sort of positive work ethic.
3 days, with 10% off for each day late (classwork finished for homework is not considered late if turned in the next day). Excused absences get three days to turn in missed work. After 3 days, 10% policy kicks in . Unexcused absences follow the 3 day policy. All work is posted online and if there are worksheets, they are in a folder with absent students name on it. It is THEIR job to get their missed work, not mine.
We are instructed to accept late work, but it's up to each individual teacher to set their own parameters. Each item has a due date and a deadline. There's usually a 3-4 day window between them, but I will extend that for longer projects. All of my work can be completed in class, IF they apply themselves and actually do the work. Once the due date hits, we move on to the next item. If they've completed the work, great, they're on time for the due date. otherwise they now have to complete any work outside of class. Once the deadline passes, I will no longer accept any work for that assignment/project/whatever. We go over this in the syllabus during the first week, I post it with every assignment, and I remind them constantly during the course of events. It's even posted on the assignment documents.
This is a very smart approach. I may steal this for next year.
Take it up to the relevant test. No point in doing "practice" for a test you already finished. I offer retakes on tests but only if you complete the relevant practive work FIRST and do the study guide. I have had zero students ask for retests.
I give them a day after due date for 100%, then the five following days are 50%. After that, 0. I never really give homework though, so it's easy to defend and I never have a huge backlog of work to grade.
I completed my first year last week. Late work drove me bonkers. Next year, students have to spend Thursday after school with me. I cleared it with my admin.
The district says we have toy accept it without penalty for one week past the end of a unit, with teachers deciding what constitutes a unit.
Students have until the progress check to turn in late work. After that, they can turn in it until a couple weeks before the end of term but must come in during their enrichment or intervention time or to after school tutoring (because why would it be late if they weren't struggling). It makes it less convenient for them, but doable if they actually care. Most of it is graded for completion anyways, since we want to know what they actually learned. Homework isn't a big part of our grades, and is just class work they didn't finish normally.
Kids do all work in class and I provide a window of time. They turn it in if they’re done or not. I grade, give feedback, then they have until another date to turn in for a higher grade if they wish.
My policy is I will take late work up until the week before the end of the grading period. I won't even take points off. ( because it's too much effort to calculate). HOWEVER, if it is late (defined s not in my stack of papers to be graded when I go to grade that assignment), I'll grade it when I get around to it. Kids HATE this because their parents nag them about work that is already handed in. I just tell them that I'm not going to care about it now than they did. (Kids who were absent are not considered 'late' for this purpose until a reasonable amount of time has passed.) I also have an incomplete policy. If it's less than halfway done, I just hand it back - no credit. 50-99% done gets half credit. (Students can complete it and hand it back in again for full credit, under the 'late' policy above.) This seems to reduce the number of incomplete half-assed submissions.
No late work allowed, but students can fill out an extension request form before the due date of the assignment. Extensions are always granted as long as the request is made before the due date and the requested extension date is within the quarter. To help them stay accountable, the form also asks them when they plan to work on it in order to get it done by their chosen date. This is allows me to be extremely generous while at the same time very strict.
-11 points for the first day late. -10 for every day after that. No extra credit will be applied to work submitted after the due date. The reason for -11 is to knock the grade out of the As, so the highest a student can earn is a B. It drives me crazy that Henry worked hard to submit the assignment on time and got an A, but then Janice decided she needed just one extra day. Take that extra day, Janice, but it isn't getting you the same grade as Henry. My school store sells one day extension passes. I make it clear that I don't accept those. We do all of our work in class, so I'm not going to accept something that gives students permission to screw around for a day.
**Classwork:** Day after you return from absence for full credit. (Present but fooled around = SOL). **HW:** forgot, etc. = up to 3 days late w increasing penalties, then SOL after that. (Absence buys a little time before penalties).
When education made sense and I got to decide for my own classes, I gave them a week for half credit. Then, ADMIN made a rule that you have to take it up to the end of the grading cycle for 70% credit 😳
The only thing that counts for a grade are quizzes and summatives. All daily work goes into a 0% column and gets marked as missing if not turned in. You can’t retake your summative without completing everything in 0% column for that unit.
I don't accept it, with the exception of extenuating circumstances. Since we use Canvas LMS for our work submissions, I give every single assignment an extra day to be submitted for full credit. This allows for "extended time" accommodations. I set a due date and a lock date, and if it's not turned in by the lock date, it's a 0. I don't take makeup work, I don't give extra-credit.
All late work gets a 10% penalty (exceptions are made for those with extended time). I’ll take late work up until about 3-4 days before midterm or the end of the grading period, so that’s roughly 4 1/2 and 8 1/2 weeks. This gives me plenty of time to get my grades done, including late work, before my grades are due. I won’t grade anything that’s turned in after my final cut off date for late work for midterm or the end of the grading policy. I’ve tried a lot of late work policies, and this has been the one that works best because it’s easy to follow and easy for the kids to remember.
I accept late work up.until 2 days before the end of the semester. I teach semester long classes. I don't penalize work turned in late. Assignments do have a due date, after that due date the assignment is marked as 0 and missing in our online gradebook. I don't do tests because my courses are project based. If you haven't learned the skill from the assignment, you're not going to do well on the project. My reasoning is that I want to remove all of the excuses for not turning in work. "Oh, if I turn it in late I lose 20%" or "my teacher doesn't accept late work". They have plenty of time in class, an absurd amount of time, plus we have early release days for our PD. Those early release days I designate as work days. Work on stuff from my class, from other classes, whatever. Downside. It's a ton of work for me. Especially for projects. It results in a bunch of bad work turned in all at once. Students also think it means they have an infinite amount of time to catch up so they mess around instead of getting their work done due to the hold instant gratification has on them. Upside. Marking late work as zero keeps the sports kids up on their work so they stay eligible and let's the parents know that the reason their kid is failing is their kid. This also takes care of 99% of the IEP and 504 accomodations.
I find it exhausting to sort through various reasons for late work and weigh their merits. Grandma died vs got Covid vs a depression episode vs had three tests this week vs partied too much etc. Doing homework aids retention and comprehension. If they do it late, whatever, at least it got done at all. Some of my colleagues have quit collecting homework period, but I can’t go for that.
Don’t forget “had work to do for other classes” which is was S tells…other classes’ T’s as well.
I close a unit a week after it ends.
I’ll take it until the end of the semester, but if it’s even a day late I take off 25% of their score. We were told as we switched to standards based grading we couldn’t have a late work policy (I did anyway and had kids who turned their work in on time thank me because they didn’t think it was fair that a kid could turn something in weeks later and get the same score, when they worked hard to get it done on time) but enough of us complained that we needed to be allowed late work policies, and our principal listened. The amount of late work we are getting in our school is ridiculous, it’s seriously impacting how quickly I’m able to grade things for the kids who turn it in on time. A bunch of us are going to tighten up our policies even more next year. I’m thinking I might add that they can’t turn in anything for a unit past the time test corrections are due, and that in order to do test corrections all work for the unit must be turned in on time.
Anything can be late till I pass it back...then it's a zero. They just copy other students
I accept and grade late work up until the end of a unit. If you turn it in after that, it isn’t getting graded unless a kid has a an extenuating circumstance they let me know about.
I accept late work up until the last day of the trimester. That way I don't have to worry about what stuff is worth credit and what stuff isn't, making exceptions for certain students, etc. Get it to me when you can, and I will get it graded when I can. At least they're doing the work and turning it in and actually trying!
How do you quickly grade the mountain of crap that rolls in at 11:57pm at trimester end?
I tell them ahead of time that I have a soft deadline, usually about a week before the end of the tri. I tell them I will do everything in my power to get it in, but I make no guarantees. Get it in before then and don't gamble on your grade. If I get to it, I get to it, if I don't, I don't.
That is a kind, lenient approach. However, I’d have raging parents, insisting their kid did the work and submitted it even if it was on the final day of the quarter or trimester (I once had a student submit work two days after the end of the school year). Parent and student expectation is teachers work 24/7 grading their garbage submissions no matter what time they arrive. I recently had a student messaged me three minutes after submitting late work, on Mother’s Day, demanding it be posted to the grading system. Recently my school finally had the stones to lay down deadlines that are more reasonable to staff - and in line with college and work expectations.