Setup grade penalties

Under Site administation:

• Navigate to Grades > Grade penalties > Manage penalty plugins (/grade/penalty/manage_penalty_plugins.php).
  • Enable the Late submission penalties plugin.
• Navigate to Grades > Grade penalties > Manage supported activities (/admin/settings.php?section=supportedplugins).
  • Select Assignment and save changes.
• Navigate to Grades > Grade penalties > Late submission penalties > Penalty rules (/grade/penalty/duedate/manage_penalty_rule.php?contextid=1)
  • Create some penalty rules.

Penalty with user/group override

1. Create a test course
2. Create an assignment in the course:
   1. Set due date to "Tomorrow" (a date in the future)
   2. Submission types: online text
   3. Make sure the grade type is set to point
   4. Enable "Grade penalties" under "Grade" section
3. Create and enrol a student in the course
4. Create a teacher in the course
5. Log in as the student,
   1. Go to the assignment
   2. Add a submission.
6. Log in as a teacher.
   1. Create a user or group override for that user with a due date in the past
   2. Mark the submission of the student
7. In the assignment "Submissions" page, verify:
   • The penalty is applied to the grade in the final grade (gradebook grade) column.
8. Delete the override created in step 6.1, make sure the "penalty recalculation" checkbox is selected
9. In the assignment "Submissions" page, verify that the grade penalty is no longer applied to the grade in the final grade (gradebook grade) column. 

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