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# Applying late penalties (Blackboard)

## Learn how to apply late penalties to student submissions when marking

Once you have finished grading submissions for your Cadmus assessment, you can apply late penalties to student submissions by:

- [Grade Centre](https://support.cadmus.io/applying-late-penalties-blackboard#gradecentre)
- [Turnitin Feedback Studio](https://support.cadmus.io/applying-late-penalties-blackboard#turnitin)

### Grade Centre

**To apply a late penalty**

1. Open your subject’s Blackboard site and navigate to the **Grade Centre** section.
2. Duplicate the Cadmus assessment column.
3. Click the **arrow** next to the original Cadmus assessment column for more options.Select **Edit column.**
4. Under the *Options* section, select **No** for *Include this column in Grade Center calculations* and *Show this column to students*.
5. Click the **arrow** on the column again to **Hide** **column**. 
6. Add your updated, penalised grades to the duplicate Cadmus column.

 

### Turnitin Feedback Studio

**To apply a late penalty**

1. in Blackboard, navigate to your *Assignments* section, using the left side panel and access the Cadmus assessment.
2. Once in Cadmus, navigate to the *Marking* page.
3. Next to the relevant student, click **Mark** to be redirected to Turnitin Feedback Studio. 
4. Add the new, penalised mark in Turnitin.

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