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title: Managing Special Considerations
description: Learn how to add extra time, alternate start dates, or deferrals for students completing exams in Cadmus.
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# Managing Special Considerations
## Learn how to add extra time, alternate start dates, or deferrals for students completing exams in Cadmus.
Once you have *released and scheduled* your exam, you will be able to manage special considerations from the *Progress* tab. There are three types of special considerations that can be set:
1. **Extra time:** allocate extra reading and/or writing time to students
2. **Alternative exam start or exam window:** specify a different exam start or exam open date, and close date for students
3. **Deferrals:** Mark students as *deferred* from an exam to exclude them from any analytics and to prevent them from viewing the exam in Cadmus
You can add special considerations to students in three ways:
1. [Directly from the class list](https://support.cadmus.io/teachers/managing-special-considerations#sc-from-class-list)
2. [From the *Special considerations* page](https://support.cadmus.io/teachers/managing-special-considerations#sc-page)
3. [Upload from a spreadsheet](https://support.cadmus.io/teachers/managing-special-considerations#sc-spreadsheet)
**To add or update special considerations from the class list**
1. From the class list on the *Progress* tab*,* find the student you would like to update special considerations for.
2. Click *Student options* **•••** next to the student's name.
3. Click **Add special consideration**.
4. Select the type of consideration you would like to add (*Extra time*, *Alternative start*, or *Mark as deferred*).
5. From the *Special considerations* page, specify the new exam start or window, or the *total* reading and/or writing time the student will receive.
**TIP!** You can set the same special considerations for multiple students at once. Simply select them all in the class list using the checkboxes and click **Special consideration** in the bulk actions class list menu.
**To add or update from the special considerations page**
1. At the top of the *Progress* page, click **Manage** in the *Manage special considerations* banner.
2. Type the name(s) of any students you would like to add special considerations to and click **Add special consideration**.
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3. Specify the new exam start or window, or the *total* reading and/or writing time the student will receive. Alternatively, for deferrals, check *Mark as deferred*.
**Note**: Dates and times in the Teacher Environment are shown in the local timezone of the person viewing Cadmus. This means the same deadline may appear differently for teachers in different regions, while still referring to the same actual submission time.
**To add or update from a spreadsheet**
1. At the top of the *Progress* page, click **Manage** in the *Manage special considerations* banner.
2. Click the **Upload from file** button, then **Download Pre-filled Class List**.
3. Open the file in Excel or similar. You will see that the file includes student name, email, and User ID for ease of reference. *Any existing special considerations which have been added in Cadmus will be reflected in the spreadsheet already.*
4. For each student you can adjust the following:
1. *Start date* or *end date* to apply an alternative exam window.
2. *Reading time* or *writing time* to provide extra time.
3. *Deferred* status, to exclude a student from the assessment.
5. To upload the spreadsheet, click the **Upload from file** button, then click **Upload considerations** or drag the file into the area.
**NOTE:** To ensure the file can be parsed, please ensure that any entries match the format indicated in the column heading. e.g. Start Date (dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm), Writing Time (minutes).
Additional Note: Some LMS integrations may sync extensions for exams into Cadmus. As a result, a student may appear with both an **Extension** tag and a **Special Consideration** tag in the *Progress tab*.
This is expected and does not cause a conflict. For exams, Cadmus uses a single set of exam dates behind the scenes, so the student's access is determined by their configured exam start and end dates.
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