Every assignment, risk-scored
DeadlineMind is not a reminder app. It is a GPA-protection engine that grades every deadline by proximity, weight, and penalty rate — and warns you before the cost actually hits your transcript.
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The risk formula
Proximity × weight × penalty rate = score
Three numbers, one score. Each input comes from somewhere the student already trusts — the LMS, the syllabus, the clock — so the score never has to ask anything of you.
equation
S = P × W × R
S · a 0.00 – 1.00 score, normalized to 0 – 100 when displayed
Proximity
PWeight
WPenalty rate
RThe score is recomputed at every checkpoint — 48 h, 6 h, 30 min — so the same assignment never carries the same score across the week.
A worked example
The same essay. The same course. Only the timing changes.
A 30%-weighted sociology essay submitted three hours late costs 7.5 points of the final grade — enough to drop an A− to a B+. A six-hour warning moves the same essay to on-time, and the grade holds.
SOC 201 · Introduction to Sociology
Sun Mar 17, 11:59 PM
Final essay — 30% of final grade
Late policy: −10% per day · max 3 days
Without DeadlineMind
Submission 3 h lateWith DeadlineMind
Warning 6 h aheadIllustrative scenario — the same engine scales to every assignment, every course, every policy shape your syllabus encodes.
Engine, not reminder
What makes this an engine, not a notification
Every assignment carries a live score that updates every time the deadline moves closer. Late Tuesday afternoon looks different from late Sunday night — even on the same assignment.
A 1% quiz and a 30% essay never carry the same score. A 30%-weighted essay one day from its deadline outweighs a quiz due in six hours, every time.
Every course reads its own syllabus. A flat −25% policy weighs the score differently from a −10%/day policy — the warning matches the actual cost, not a generic "you might be late".
How the score reaches you
Three steps from Canvas to a targeted alert
Connect Canvas
Link your Canvas account once. Every enrolled course, every posted assignment, every deadline moves to the same unified calendar.
A penalty rate per course
Drop in each syllabus PDF. DeadlineMind extracts the exact penalty rule and assigns a penalty-rate factor to every assignment in that course.
Warnings when the score crosses threshold
The score recomputes every checkpoint — 48 h, 6 h, 30 min. You get a targeted alert only when the cost is actually about to hit your GPA.
Stop losing marks. Start scoring every deadline.
Connect Canvas once. The engine reads every assignment, reads every penalty rule from your syllabus, and starts warning you before the cost actually hits your GPA. Free tier covers all of it.