Late Submission of Work

You will receive a schedule of coursework submission deadlines via your Assessment Statement at the start of the year. You should use this schedule to plan your work programme and should regard coursework submission deadline dates and times as being almost immovable.

However, it is recognised that occasionally some students struggle to meet the deadline due to a range of circumstances. If your medical or personal circumstances (also known as extenuating circumstances) mean that submission by a due deadline becomes a problem, please follow the guidance for requesting an extension prior to the deadline. The college student support officers will then review whether an extension to provide you more time to submit your work can be permitted.

If you submit your coursework late without an approved extension, then your mark will be reduced in line with the University’s policy for late submission of coursework:

• Within one working day (i.e., 24 hours) of the deadline, your marks will be capped at the minimum pass mark. For students studying at levels 3-6 this is 40%. For students studying at level 7, this is 50%.

• Any work submitted after this point will receive a zero mark.

24 hours is defined as the same time as the original submission deadline on the next university working day. Weekends and other days the university is not open are not counted as working days.

Please note there may be some coursework items which cannot support late submission for sound practice or operational reasons, e.g., time bound assessments such as a presentation or where feedback has already been provided to the class. Your Module Leader will make it clear to you in module documentation where this is the case.