Late and Missed Assessment Submissions Policy
Starting Fall 2025, students must use the UTM Special Consideration Request for all IMI undergraduate courses.
The following steps must be completed in order to be considered for academic accommodation for a missed test or assignment:
- You must inform your professor via e-mail within 24 hours of a test date or assignment due date of any circumstances that prevent you from writing a test or submitting an assignment on time.
- You must submit within 72 hours (including weekends) an online Special Consideration Request with supporting documentation. In your request, please make note of the assessment title and deadline.
Supporting documentation includes:
You may use the ACORN Absence Declaration Tool to support your request for academic consideration in your courses. The tool can be used to declare an absence once per academic term (e.g., the fall term) for a maximum period of seven (7) consecutive calendar days.
Learn more: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/registrar/enrolment/manage/absence-declaration and https://www.registrar.utoronto.ca/records-academics/absence-declaration/. Please attach a screenshot of your ACORN Absence Declaration Tool to your Special Consideration Request.
Medical or other documentation including the Verification of Illness Form, Verification of Extenuating Circumstances, etc…
Learn more: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/registrar/petitions/supporting-documents. Please attach your supporting documentation to your Special Consideration Request
The Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI) will respond to your Special Consideration Request within five (5) business days. You will be notified of the decision via your utoronto email account. If you do not receive a decision within five (5) business days, contact imi.businessminor@utoronto.ca. You may receive a follow-up email on your Special Consideration Request to your utoronto email account. If so, you must respond within 24 hours.
It is your responsibility to follow the appropriate procedures and timelines for a Special Consideration Request. Failure to do so may result in your request being denied.
If you are granted an academic consideration, the following will occur:
This applies to tests, mid-terms, and quizzes.
A make-up test will be scheduled with as little as 24-72 hours’ notice. Instructors will inform the student in writing to their utoronto email account. If the student is granted permission to take a make-up test and misses it, then they are assigned a mark of zero for the test unless the instructor is satisfied that missing the makeup test was unavoidable. Students are not automatically entitled to a second makeup test. If a make-up test is not possible, i.e. due to timing or scheduling issues, the instructor may redistribute the weighting of the test across all term work (per the University Assessment and Grading Practices Policy) or offer a make-up assignment.
If the options above are not possible, the missed test will be re-distributed to the final exam providing this option does not increase the weight of the final exam greater than the allowable weight. For non-100-level courses, the weight of the final exam cannot be greater than 80% (of the graded work in the course).
You are required to submit assignments as soon as you can, and you should NOT wait for a decision on your academic consideration from IMI.
Late assignments will be subject to a late penalty of 5% per day (including weekends). If you submit an assignment five (5) calendar days beyond the due date or after the assignments have been returned to the class, you will receive a grade of zero.
Exceptions include class participation where there is no latitude for missed participation.
This policy cannot be used to seek academic consideration for any matters that requires a petition such as missing a final exam. For more information on academic considerations for final exams, review the “Missed Final Examinations” policy in the “Policies & Statements” section of your syllabus.
Questions?
Contact imi.businessminor@utoronto.ca