Setup:

• Enable grade penalties.
  • Enable Late submission penalties under: /grade/penalty/manage_penalty_plugins.php
  • Select Assignment under: /admin/settings.php?section=supportedplugins
  • Setup an example penalty rule under: /grade/penalty/duedate/manage_penalty_rule.php?contextid=1
    • Click Edit.
    • Set Final penalty rule to 50 and click Save changes.

• Generate a course and users.
  • From your root site directory, run: php admin/tool/generator/cli/maketestsite.php --size=XS
• Configure a course.
  • Navigate to one of the generated courses (e.g. Test course: S)
  • Create some groups.
    • Participants > Groups > Create group
  • Add group members.
  • Create or edit an assignment (e.g. Assignment 1)
    • Set the due date to some time in the past.
    • Set Submission types to Online text.
    • Enable Grade penalties under the Grade section.

Testing:

On course and assign module pages, under the Grade penalties tab, you will find a new Penalty exemptions settings page.

You will find a similar page under Site Administration > Grades > Manage penalty exemptions.

1. Navigate to the assignment page > Grade penalties > Manage penalty exemptions.
2. Add some user exemptions.
3. Add some group exemptions.
4. Confirm edit and delete work as expected.
5. Make some submissions for the assignment by logging in as students and submitting.
6. Grade the submissions.
   • Please node grade recalculation happens in an ad-hoc task for the assign module.
   • You can execute these tasks from the browser by clicking Run all for the recalculate_penalties task under: /admin/tool/task/adhoctasks.php
7. Verify penalties do not apply to exempt users.
8. Verify exemptions also work as expected when applied from the course and system context instead.
9. Verify the grader report page and assignment activity pages correctly show exemption icons next to grades.
10. Verify unit tests pass and have sufficient coverage.

Testing backup and restore:

1. Create a group exemption and user exemption in the course context.
2. Create a group exemption and user exemption in the assignment context.
3. Backup and restore the course with default settings.
4. Verify the restored course has copies of the exemptions.

Code verified against automated checks with warnings.

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