EC claims and supporting evidence should be submitted within 5 working days of the deadline for the assessment item affected by the EC's.
Evidence supplied with your EC claim must coincide with the submission dates.
Unfortunately; there are occasions when unforeseen circumstances beyond your control can impact on study, assessment and daily life. In these situations it may be appropriate to consider applying for these to be considered as Extenuating Circumstances.
Extenuating Circumstances (ECs) is a phrase which is used to describe serious and exceptional factors outside your control which adversely affected your performance during your study. These factors may have prevented you from attending examinations or other timed assessments or caused you to miss assessment submission deadlines.
Examples of extenuating circumstances are illness, accidents or serious family problems.
A claim for extenuating circumstances may relate to the full module, or part of the module
To submit an Extenuating Circumstances claim you will need to complete an Extenuating Circumstances Claim Form, including module codes and submission dates, and giving as much information as possible about the circumstances and their impact on you. This information is held confidentially.
Forms should be completed online and sent to assessment@cumbria.ac.uk. Please note we cannot open shared files and so need to be sent as an attachment on an email.
The contents of any EC claim will only be viewed by the Extenuating Circumstances Panel. Further information about the EC Panel can be found in Appendix 3e of the University of Cumbria Academic Regulations.