Late days

All students start the semester with a budget of five late days; however, you can only use at most 2 late days for any particular deadline/assignment.
Each late day extends the deadline of a grade item by exactly 24 hours.
Late days cannot be used to delay a midterm/final exam.
Late days have to be used in their entirety.
You can only use a late day if you have one left in your budget.

You may not use any late days for the first and last homework. Please plan accordingly.

All you need to do in order to use a late day is submit a grade item after the deadline has expired through the regular submission. There is no need to "request" a late day in advance, it's solely based on when you submit. Of course, you must still have a late day available, otherwise the late submission will result in a score of $0$.

It is your responsibility to keep track on the late days you've used.

Also note that since late days are used up automatically based on your submission, it's very important that you weigh your options carefully. You cannot "get back" a late day after the fact because you made a mistake.

Late days are a valuable commodity and you should use them sparingly. They are primarily intended to help you deal with unexpected circumstances, so you should not make them part of your normal planning process.

There is no grace period for assignment deadlines, only late days.

Each homework is expected to take between few to several hours to complete. When you are given 10 days for instance to complete a homework, it means we expect the homework to take at most 10 hours to be completed (1 hour per day). We advise you to start early and to work an hour or two every day, instead of cramming everything close to the deadline.