Please change the default deadline time from midnight to 5 pm

Daniel.M.4762
Daniel.M.4762 Posts: 4 🔍
edited October 14 in Thought Leadership

Dear D2L,

My institution uses your product for content delivery. I would like to re-think your default deadline time of midnight for assignments and quizzes. As you're likely aware users typically adopt default parameters in programs. There is ample evidence that midnight deadlines do not promote healthy work life balance in students. Therefore, please consider changing the default from midnight to something more reasonable like 5 pm. I am aware that users can change the deadline time but I have found at my own institution that instructors use the default simply because they cannot be bothered to change it.

Thank you!

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  • Rusha.S.831
    Rusha.S.831 Posts: 149 🤝🏼 image

    Hi @Daniel.M.4762,

    Thank you for reaching out to us via Brightspace Community!

    I understand that you would like to change the default due date time at the organisation level, but unfortunately, it isn't currently possible. However, I did find an existing idea on our Product Idea Exchange: Default 'Due Date' Time setting for the Assignment tool (D8596)

    May I suggest you upvote this idea, as this gives visibility to our internal team on which feature is most requested, and further consider the feature request.

    Thanks,

    Rusha

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