If a student needs extra time on exams, extra attempts, or longer to hand work in, you add it from the Students page in the Blended Teaching Control Center. The accommodation applies to that student's assessments in your course and nowhere else.
This article covers:
Adding an accommodation from the Students page
Extra time
Extra attempts
Longer to hand in (deadline extensions)
Setting an accommodation from a quiz's Moderate tab
Allowing late submissions
FAQ
1. Add an accommodation from the Students page
Every student row on the Students page has an Accommodations column. Nothing you set here affects the student's other courses.
Open your course in the Control Center and go to the Students page.
Find the student and click Add accommodation in the Accommodations column.
Choose where it applies: This course · every assessment (current and future assessments in this course) or One assessment only (pick the assessment; this replaces the course accommodation for that one assessment).
Enter the extra time, extra attempts or extra days the student needs. The sections below explain each one.
Click Save.
1.1 Extra time
Under Extra time, choose Percentage or Fixed minutes and enter the amount. Extra time adds to the time limit of each timed assessment. It does not move the assessment's End Date.
If a quiz's End Date would cut the extra time short, the student also needs their own End Date. If your class uses Canvas, read Giving a student extra time when your class uses Canvas.
1.2 Extra attempts
Extra attempts are set one assessment at a time. Choose One assessment only, pick the assessment under Which assessment, and enter the number in Extra attempts.
1.3 Longer to hand in (deadline extensions)
Enter the number of days in Longer to hand in. This moves the Due Date and the End Date later by the same number of days, for every assessment in the course or for the one you chose. Start dates do not change, so an accommodation cannot open an assessment early.
2. Setting an accommodation from a quiz's Moderate tab
You can set the same accommodations while you are looking at one quiz. Open Assessments, click the three dots to the right of the quiz and choose Moderate. Find the student, click the three dots at the end of their row and pick one of two options:
Quiz-level Accommodations: extra time, Additional Attempts and Additional Days for Due/End Dates for this quiz only. Click Save Accommodations.
Global Accommodations: the same course-wide setting as This course · every assessment on the Students page, under its older name. Click Save Global Accommodations.
3. Allowing late submissions
You may want to let students submit an assignment after the due date, with a penalty for being late. This is a setting on the assessment itself, not an accommodation.
To allow late submissions:
Go to Assessments in your Control Center and click the name of the assessment.
The Setup tab opens on the Availability section, where you can change the Start Date, Due Date and End Date.
The Due Date is the last moment an attempt counts as on time. The End Date is the last moment a student can submit at all. Set the End Date after the Due Date.
Once the End Date is after the Due Date, you are asked for a Late Submission Penalty (%), which is applied to the student's grade. If a student scores 80% and the penalty is 20%, their grade is 80% x (1 - 20%) = 64%. For no penalty, set it to 0%.
Click Save setup.
4. FAQ
I extended the deadline for a student but the dates did not update in Canvas or Blackboard.
If your course is linked to Canvas or Blackboard, we send your LMS the assessment dates you set in Blended. Canvas and Blackboard only accept one date per assessment, so a student's extension does not appear there. The original due date still shows in the LMS.
The extension is still active. When the student opens the assessment from Canvas or Blackboard, they come through to Blended, where their extended due date shows correctly.
I extended a deadline for a student, but they still cannot open the assessment link in Canvas or Blackboard.
If your LMS has locked the link based on the original dates, the student cannot click through, even though the extension is active in Blended. To restore access, move the end date in your LMS for that assessment.
LMS dates only control whether the link can be clicked. They do not affect attempts or whether a student can begin the assessment; Blended decides that. If you extend the LMS end date, other students whose deadline has passed may find the link clickable again. The assessment is still closed for them in Blended, so they see a message that it is closed and cannot begin.
How to adjust the assessment end date in your LMS
In Canvas:
Open the course and go to Assignments.
Click the title of the assessment, then click Edit.
Scroll down to the Assign section.
Set the Until date to match or pass the student's extended deadline.
Click Save.
In Blackboard (Ultra):
Open the course and find the assessment.
Click the three-dot menu next to the assessment and choose Edit.
In the side panel, find the availability or release date settings.
Set the Display Until date to match or pass the student's extended deadline.
Save your changes.
In Blackboard (Original):
Open the content area where the assessment sits.
Click the chevron next to the assessment title and choose Edit.
Under Availability, change the Display Until date.
Click Submit to save.