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Assignment hard "cutoff" date not working

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
backend

Research direction

Reproduce the issue by creating an assignment with “This is a cutoff date” selected, then compare the dashboard’s late status with the student repository’s write access after the due date. No file, test, or entry point is identified in the report; done means students can no longer push after the cutoff while the assignment remains marked correctly.

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Description

I have tried creating assignments using the checkbox:

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This is a cutoff date
If selected, the student will lose write access to their repository after the date is reached.

However, it is not working as documented. Students do not lose write access, and they can continue to push their work after the due date. (It does get marked as "late" in the classroom dashboard, but student write access is not removed.)

Dominant language
Go
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