Manage automated short extensions in Canvas

To ensure automated short extensions are enabled for your assignments, make sure all graded assignments and graded discussions have a set due date in Canvas.

Automated short extensions are not available for:

• Canvas Quizzes
• Exams, including centrally conducted and faculty-based exams, take home exams, and in class exams.
• In-class assessments (for example in-class presentations) – these should be set up as Canvas “no submission” assignments
• External tool assignments such as Turnitin Feedback Studio Assignments, textbook publisher assignments and EdStem.

If you’re unsure about when to enable or disable automated short extensions for a Canvas assignment, please book a consultation with the LDT team.

Automated short extensions are managed in the Assignment Extensions dashboard (also called EzExtend). Instructors can access this dashboard in the Assignment Extensions area of a Canvas subject site.

The dashboard shows a list of applicable assignments with short extension requests.

To view details on which students have been granted short extensions, select the assignment title and open the Granted tab. Requests are approved automatically, meaning that the Pending and Not Granted tabs are redundant and will remain empty.

Note:

• Any staff role with access to the Gradebook can view extension details in the dashboard
• Until a student requests an automated short extension, the dashboard will be empty
• If an assignment is deleted from Canvas Assignments, it will still appear on the Assignment Extensions dashboard
• If an assignment due date is changed after short extensions have been approved, short extensions in the Canvas assignment will need to be updated manually. Book a consultation with the LDT team for advice if needed. Other assignment details can be edited without affecting short extensions

Students can request a short extension through the Assignment Extensions dashboard from 14 days before an assignment is due. The ability to request a short extension will close immediately after the due date.

Once submitted, a short extension request is approved automatically and the student’s new due date will be updated in Canvas. Students will also receive an email to their UTS email address confirming their new due date.

Subject coordinators and tutors do not need to do anything to confirm the request. Students do not need to supply a reason to request an automated short extension.

If students require a short extension for a Canvas group assignment, group members must discuss and agree unanimously on a short extension request before applying. The student who submits the group assignment must also request the short extension and inform the Subject Coordinator by email.