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Once you have successfully beaten the deadline using either of the above tricks, you can now turn in a late assignment via Turnitin with peace. To submit your assignment on Turnitin, you have to log in and then upload the file to the existing assignment.
Both are better resources on those subjects.Code of conductIf a reasonable person wouldn't say it to a professor/colleague/conference speaker they don't know well, it's probably over the line. This includes off-topic and unproductive discussion as well as rudeness.Disagreement is completely fine, encouraged even, when there are different perspectives to share. If an idea is a bad one, please do tell someone that it is in no uncertain terms. But unfortunately correct. I'm a lecturer, and I make my papers due at11:30PM and tell the students to hand it in at 10:00PM.
I deduct 10% for every 24hr period or part there of after the 11:30 cut off period. I hit students another 10% if I have to submit it for and on their behalf. By this point they've really kissed goodbye to their chances.To be honest, every paper that is more than an hour late has been pretty terrible and would just pass at best even with out the penalty.If you are are not organised, the game is already pretty much stacked against you. I'm sorry, but the professor is hard but correct. The time allotted to do the assignment becomes irrelevant once the due date passes.
Disagreement with the policies of the course also become irrelevant once they are announced (usually in the syllabus) and the student elects to remain in the course. If he didn't have enough time to complete it he should have asked for an extension beforehand. In this case, though, he did have the time.
If he started it at the last minute and got it done four hours late, it was entirely his responsibility to start at least four hours earlier in order to be done on time.It doesn't make your friend a bad person or a complete academic failure. It just means that your friend failed to complete the assignment and is stuck with some stiff consequences. It's time to look forward and see what he can do to either mitigate those consequences or retake the course later on. Your friend likely has the option to appeal the grade once the semester grades are in.Check your university policy. Your friend will probably still have to set up a meeting with the instructor first, likely the teacher will say they won't change the grade, but this means the appeal can be officially escalated.At my university it goes to: instructor department head associate Dean of the college Dean some intermediate university provost? Until it is resolved.Might still get an F out of the whole process, but at least it would be a great learning opportunity on all fronts. I tend to agree that deductions for late assignments are the better route to take, but typically professors have discretion as to how they handle this.
Class policy regarding late assignments should be clearly explained in the syllabus. If the policy is not clearly explained that might be grounds for appeal or reconsideration, if they are clearly explained then your friend's best course of action is to plead their case with the professor. Good luck to them, failing a class over being five hours late is pretty harsh.
Your friend shouldnt have waited until 4 am to email the professor if he was really done with the essay at midnight. This is really up to the professors discretion. Your friend could always appeal to the department chair or dean if he feels he is being treated unfairly or unjustly, but the chair will side with the professor if the requirements were outlined in writing.Now personally speaking, I think gray area does exist in the real world. If you pay a bill late, you get an extra fee. If Im not done with a.