Grant an Assignment Extension

Assignments, Lecturer Guides
November 15, 2023

This guide covers how to grant specific students an extension on an assignment by setting user overrides.

Overrides allow you to change the following settings:

Due date
The day / time that displays to students on the assignment page and in the Moodle Calendar.

This guide shows how to have a different assignment due date date for a specific individual, but the process is the same for overriding other assignment settings. Note that you cannot override the “Expect completed on” date.

Steps

Open the assignment you want to add an extension to.
Click button View all submissions.

On the page that opens, select the student you want to add an extension for from the checkbox.
Click the With selected... dropdown. Select Grant extension and click button Go.

Change the due date to reflect the extension. This new due date will only apply to the students you've specified in step 4.
Click Save changes.

You'll see the extension you just added in the list of user overrides.