Assignment overrides
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User and group overrides allow teachers to adjust assignment availability dates for specific students or groups — for example, granting an extension to a student with medical circumstances without changing the deadline for the whole class.
Accessing overrides
From the assignment page, go to More > Overrides.
From here you can add and manage user overrides and group overrides separately.
Adding an override
- Click Add user override or Add group override.
- Select the user or group.
- Enable and set only the fields you wish to override — leave others blank to keep the assignment defaults.
- Click Save.
Fields
- Allow submissions from
- The date before which the student cannot submit.
- Due date
- Submissions after this date are marked late.
- Cut-off date
- After this date the submit button is hidden and the student can no longer submit.
- Reason for override New feature
in Moodle 5.2!
- An optional note explaining why this override was granted (e.g. disability accommodation, medical extension). Visible to teachers in the override list.
Precedence
If a student belongs to more than one group that has an override, the most lenient date applies: the earliest open date and the latest due and cut-off dates.
A user override always takes precedence over any group overrides.
