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[normative_]

1. Get yourself a box of good chocolates.

2. You may eat one every time a student asks you for an extension, but only then.

Or...if you trust your colleagues...

1. Buy a box of good chocolates.

2. The colleague with the most requests wins. Make sure you have a tally board out in the open so that the students can see you're making sport of them. Needs to be behind glass so that no one else can manipulate the numbers. I like the idea of using names too.

[roguerouge]

It's in the syllabus:

• Please remember that every student at ______ leads a hectic life full of academic, extracurricular, and social commitments and crises. Deadlines are set to provide a level playing field on which to evaluate each student’s work fairly. Students must discuss with the professor any new deadlines for any assignment in advance. Extensions are granted automatically if the student can provide documentation for delays resulting from personal medical issues or significant life events affecting the student or their family and loved ones.

And I begin the first class by observing that documentation has allowed me to catch two people with "fake grandparent death" excuses.