Editing Herzing Issues: Grading and Academic Records (section)

=== HU-126: NSG525 Week 1 Pathophysiology Review Quiz deadline was 12:59 AM Sunday morning, not 11:59 PM Sunday evening as announced; students flagged as late; the reporting student unable to retake after grade correction because quiz closed before correction was applied ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:14em" | Severity
| High
! Status
| CONFIRMED
|-
! Issue type
| Incorrect Assignment Deadline / Non-Standard Due Time Causing Late Flags
! Date added
| 2026-05-12
|-
! Owner
| colspan="3" | Dr. Heather Gregg / Dr. Stacey Gombar / NSG525 Faculty
|}
'''Finding.''' Per the tracker's evidence, the NSG525 Week 1 Pathophysiology Review Quiz was set with a due time of 12:59 AM early Sunday morning, not 11:59 PM Sunday evening as announced and as is standard throughout the program. As a result, students were caught off guard and flagged as late for missing the non-standard 12:59 AM deadline, and when Dr. Gregg applied the manual grade correction for duplicate answer coding errors, the quiz had already closed under the 12:59 AM deadline, locking the reporting student out of his remaining attempts before the correction was posted. Dr. Gregg confirmed the coding errors affected all sections and were unintentional, and noted the reporting student's score of 57.5 includes the manual corrections.

'''Evidence.''' Email from the reporting student to Dr. Gregg (May 2026) documenting the mismatched deadline and the resulting late flags. Email from Dr. Gregg confirming that two coding errors were identified in the NSG525 Week 1 Pathophysiology Review quiz, that the errors were unintentional and affected all sections, and that the student's current score of 57.5 already includes the manual credit adjustments for those questions. Source group: email chain, the reporting student to Dr. Gregg and Dr. Gombar, May 2026; NSG525 Week 1 quiz Canvas deadline documentation.

'''Reported statement.'''
<blockquote>For some reason this assignment was due at 12:59 AM early Sunday morning not 11:59 Sunday evening. This was not the announcement. The announcement notes Wed and Sunday at 11:59. Throughout the program, everything was due Sunday evening at 11:59 PM. So many students were caught off guard that they have now been flagged as late.</blockquote>

'''Standards.''' 34 CFR 668.14 (administrative capability): institutions must ensure that assignment deadlines are accurately set and consistent with announced due dates. ACEN Standard 4: assessments must be administered under fair and consistent conditions. A quiz deadline set for 12:59 AM Sunday, 23 hours earlier than the announced 11:59 PM Sunday deadline and inconsistent with every other assignment in the program, is an administrative error that caused students to be flagged as late through no fault of their own and caused the quiz to close before the grade correction was applied, eliminating remaining retake attempts. The combination of a coding error in quiz answers ({{HU|HU-112}}) and a deadline coding error in the same quiz constitutes compounding administrative failures in a single assessment.

'''Impact.''' Students flagged as late for the NSG525 Week 1 quiz due to the 12:59 AM deadline error face late submission penalties. The reporting student specifically was prevented from using his remaining attempts (out of 10 allowed) after the grade correction was applied, because the quiz had already closed under the non-standard deadline. His final score of 57.5, after manual corrections, reflects the remaining questions he missed, but he was denied the opportunity to improve that score with the benefit of knowing which duplicate-answer questions would be corrected. The interaction between the deadline error and the coding error created a situation where the grade correction came too late to be useful.

'''Notes.''' This issue is distinct from {{HU|HU-112}} (duplicate answer coding errors) but directly compounds it. The quiz had two simultaneous errors: wrong answer choices ({{HU|HU-112}}) and wrong deadline ({{HU|HU-126}}). Combined with {{HU|HU-125}} (accommodation blocked), these three issues in the same assessment create a comprehensive access and fairness failure for the reporting student in Week 1. Dr. Gregg's explanation that faculty from different courses were responding to the same email thread (Dr. Gombar for NSG621, Dr. Gregg for NSG525) also adds to the confusion, with students receiving multiple emails about different courses from different faculty without clear course identification. Cross-reference: {{HU|HU-112}} (NSG525 quiz coding errors), {{HU|HU-125}} (accommodation blocked), {{HU|HU-099}} (three-day posting rule timing), {{HU|HU-031}} (contradictory faculty guidance).

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