Penalty points for blogs posted past the due date?

I think most of participates tried to publish their projects/blogs even if they knew that they might loss the points. However, they were doing their best to share the journeys with everyone here.

I posted my project blog within September 5 EST, the date posted was shown as September 6. I am not sure how that is going to work out.

As organiser mentioned earlier the Path to Programmable 3 is sponsored by AMD and theme is to explore the devices, tools and share the knowledge of FPG's and check how their devices and tools easiness towards a project development. The competition is just a platform to learn and explore these tools. 

Participants are encouraged and appreciated even if they submitted after due dates. I am not sure about penalties, but date extension can be requested, if any genuine reason.

Let's hope for the good points.

deadline already was extended.

I for example, tried to send the final project before the extended deadline. I had a problem with publishing it before the deadline. First, I had a problem the saved draft, option which I used to save a partial version of the blog. At a moment, after I used this option, entering again in editing mode I noticed that the version displayed by the platform was one from two days ago. Fortunately, I kept a copy in Word format on my computer. But I still needed some time to insert the missing text and also to re-insert the missing pictures.

When I finished the blog, I used again save draft button and after that, I pressed Publish button. I wasn't sure that the blog was published but I said I will check it in the morning. I didn't want to push Publish again as, when I did this for a previous blog, I ended up with three copies of the blog included in a queue where blogs must wait to be validated by the moderator.

In the morning I saw that the blog was not published and I pressed again the Publish option. The blog finally got published but after the deadline.  I am not expecting to get any of the promised prizes as I also missed the deadlines for the last blogs, just wanted to raise the problems I faced yesterday late in the night. The board I received for the contest and on which I was learning and developing the project is already a prize for me.  

I also want to mention that I have problems in finding the blogs under work (saved as drafts). Normally I try to get to them through Profile, My content. There I find the published blogs but not the draft ones (in the old platform they were accessible in the same place). No link, and no way to see and access them in order to continue with their editing. And then, at some point (I didn't figure out when and why), an icon appears in the upper left of the screen indicating that I have one or more unpublished blogs. Am I missing something? Are there any docs that describe how this can be done?

It took time to learn how to publish blogs here. I learned that during my first design challenge here last year. It happened for all of us.

I had this issue recently - the edit icon didn't appear until I started a new blog to re-ceate the lost one. But it did appear before I actually entered  blog content.

cghaba said:

I also want to mention that I have problems in finding the blogs under work (saved as drafts). Normally I try to get to them through Profile, My content. There I find the published blogs but not the draft ones (in the old platform they were accessible in the same place). No link, and no way to see and access them in order to continue with their editing. And then, at some point (I didn't figure out when and why), an icon appears in the upper left of the screen indicating that I have one or more unpublished blogs. Am I missing something? Are there any docs that describe how this can be done?

Hello,

We completely changed our website platform in 2021, we moved from Jive to Verint, and in doing so, the behaviour of different functionality of the website changed. One of these changes happened to be how draft blog posts are handled. We currently do not have a method of making it similar or the same to how it was on Jive unfortunately.

We have an FAQ wiki and site section:  /members-area/support/p/site-faq  where we try to link most of the commonly asked questions about the site, else there's user documentation on Verint's site https://community.telligent.com/community/12/a/user-documentation 

Your blog drafts are visible in the group that you were creating them in, and if you browse to the 'blog application' within that group, they're accessible via the pencil icon.

Hope this helps.

I've had a few people wrote back to me about some serious health issues they had during the program period. When I learn about personal issues like this I usually give an extension, which is my policy for all my programs. But this should be for the final project. Credit for the training blogs has been closed for awhile. As for the closing time of day, my feeling has always been that we have people in different time zones, so the closing time should be within a day of the posted closing day. I had not considered penalty points. I suppose that's the point of the deadline, anything past that would not be eligible for any points. It seems like I need to take a closer look at deadlines. Thanks for making me think about it.

I am going through everyone's blogs this morning for a meeting with the sponsor this afternoon. If you were having problems posting them, then I feel it is on me to find out why, I don't feel you should be penalized for that.