Late Work

I am curious about how everyone approaches late work in your classes? I accept it for a 10% point penalty per day late (not including quizzes, which I do not allow late). Here are some things I think are pros and cons of accepting late work:

Pro
1. Students are more likely to pass classes
2. Students have more flexibility, which is probably why they are taking online classes
3. Late work covers the same content

Con
1. I hate grading late work. It is not that fun to be grading work from three different weeks at one time and manually going back to the gradebook to enter scores and figuring out who did what when. This is not good teaching time.
2. Students expect all future teachers to let them submit work at any time
3. This does not represent college level learning, as on ground universities observe real deadlines
4. My students know what is due when on the first day of class so good project planning should eliminate the need for late work, even in emergencies that last only a day or two

Thoughts? Ideas?

Hello and happy summer!

Hello and happy summer, all! Just testing this out since this is my first blog post. I'm curious to know if anyone reads the faculty blogs, since I did not know about them before being asked to blog. Anybody? Any readers?
-Joanna