Moodle automated extensions

Christmas has come early for course administrators and academics looking to reduce their administrative workloads: the DLE team has now released automated extensions in Moodle for students with approved Delayed Assessment Permits, Extenuating Circumstances and Reasonable Academic Adjustments! This is available now for use on postgraduate and undergraduate Moodle courses (2025-2026).

Following the recent changes to the process for Reasonable Academic Adjustments, the DLE Team has been working with the SITS Integration Team to complete updates to their code and final testing with end users.

Approved extension data can now be pulled into Moodle from SITS to automatically create user or group overrides for Moodle Assignment or Moodle Quiz which can be used to adjust individual deadlines in Moodle.

Turnitin assignments are not supported. However, it will be possible to use this with the forthcoming  Coursework double marking tool. Reassessments are not yet supported.

The benefit of automated extensions is that they will save a huge amount of administrative time but it is still important to check extension details are correct in Portico beforehand!​

Further guidance

For user guidance on how to import extensions into Moodle, see the automated extensions guide and for help with marks transfer, see the SITS Marks Transfer guide.

Merry Christmas!