Imply the late penalty more fairly

Question

Currently in Canvas, late submission penalties are applied based on full days, and the system rounds partial days up. For example, a submission that is 1.01 days or 1.99 days late is both rounded to 2 days late.

This approach can feel unfair to students when they are only slightly over the 1-day mark.

Is there a way to implement fairer rounding, such as:

* Round 1.49 days or less to 1 day

* Round 1.5 days or more to 2 days

Or alternatively, allow institutions to customise the rounding threshold for late penalties?

Keen to hear if others have encountered this, or if there are any existing workarounds or planned improvements in this area.

Gabriel33 · Accepted Answer

The best I can suggest is to set the penalty by hour instead, but that may limit you to multiples of 24% of penalty per day.