Binding deadlines

Allow flexibility or set binding deadlines for teams.

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Written by Barkha Patel
Updated over a week ago

Setting binding deadlines

As an experience administrator, you have the option to choose whether you want your experience deadlines to be binding or non-binding for the learner teams working on your experience. Update this setting by following the instructions below:

  1. Navigate to the experience settings.

  2. Select the 'Teams' tab, then scroll down to the 'Deadlines' section.

  3. Select an option from the following:

    • Dates are non-binding

      Learners may start projects, submit milestones and submit final submissions at any time before or after set deadlines.

    • Dates are binding

      Learners may not complete steps after a certain time has elapsed from the set timeline.

  4. If you select 'Dates are binding', you will be able to specify a grace period, indicating the number of days after a deadline during which a learner may still complete a step.

Learner invitation expiry deadline

As an experience admin, you have the option to choose whether invitations to your experience should expire. To set this up, complete the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the experience settings.

  2. Select the 'Learners' tab and scroll down to the 'Learner Invitation Expiry' section.

  3. Enter the number of days after which you would like the invitation to expire, or leave it blank if you don't want the invitation to expire.

  4. You may view the expiry date of the invitations by navigating to your experience settings > ‘Learners’ tab > ‘Invites’ tab.

Missed deadlines

Learner teams will not be able to complete a step if the set deadline and grace period have passed. For example, learners will not see a button to start their project or apply to projects if they missed the corresponding deadline.

All team members, project administrators, and experience administrators will be notified via email when a team cannot proceed due to a missed deadline.

Allowing exemptions for missed deadlines

As an educator, you can grant exemptions for missed deadlines by extending the grace period on the team page for the respective team. To do this, follow the instructions below:

  1. Navigate to the team page of the team you wish to extend the deadline.

  2. Click on the 'Settings tab' on the team page.

  3. Enter the number of days you wish to extend the deadline by in the 'Additional grace period' field.




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