Please provide information on your School/Institute's Late Submission penalty policy. This policy was approved by Senate on 11 June 2015.
Where an assignment is submitted late (and there are no extenuating circumstances) a mark of zero (0FL – zero, fail, late) shall be applied immediately, unless the School/Institute has made it explicit that the alternative penalty of graduated deductions applies.
Where the penalty of graduated deductions applies, five per cent of the total marks available (i.e. five marks for an assignment marked out of one hundred) shall be deducted for each 24 hour period or part thereof after the submission date and time, including weekends and bank holidays. An assignment submitted more than 120 hours late shall be awarded a mark of zero (0FL).
Where the penalty of graduated deductions applies, a school/institute must make students aware of the penalty in advance, or else the default penalty (an immediate mark of 0 FL) will apply. This may be published in the programme handbook and/or - where a school/institute does not use the same policy for all assessments - in module handbooks.
Where a student fails a module as a consequence of one of these penalties in an assessment, normal resit provision shall apply (where attempts remain).
