Two major improvements have been made to the Extension Requests tool in Canvas – based on feedback from Flinders staff – which will now reduce the time spent processing requests.

Students can request additional extensions

If students have an approved extension, they can now request additional extensions. Key features are:

• Additional requests include a history of all previous requests.
• Both new and subsequent requests are listed together for easy access.
• All approved requests will update the due date of the relevant Assignment or New Quiz.
• If a subsequent request is declined, the last approved extension will apply.

Until dates

There have been issues where ‘until dates’ were removed when an extension was applied. From now on, until dates will be set for all extensions, equal to the time between the original due date and the original until date, when an ‘until date’ has been applied.

The following table demonstrates how this change will affect students. The below example showcases how this works for an original ‘until date’ that was two weeks later:

Original dates	Student A	Student B
Due date: March 7 Until date: March 21	Extended due date: March 14 Extended until date: March 29	Extended due date: March 15 Extended until date: March 30

For further information on Extension Request tool, visit the Support Centre for user guides and 24/7 live chat, phone, and email support.