duroch1

So I'm in my school's nursing school and you need at least an 83% in any nursing course to continue with the program. I had an 85% just before our final assignment was due (it was a post-simulation assignment). Grades for the Registrar were due at 7AM last Friday, and the assignment opened up for us at 5pm the Wednesday before. In every nursing course we've had, post-simulations have ALWAYS been due Thursday at midnight (so we got 31 hours to complete the assignment). However, a new professor sent an e-mail saying this assignment was due at 5pm instead this time. After work on Thursday, I got home at 10pm (which I knew two hours would be enough time to complete it), only to see me locked out of the assignment. I checked my e-mail and about had a heart attack when I saw the e-mail she sent out. Immediately I e-mailed her and another professor. The next morning I checked my grade in my class and my grade dropped 4%, putting me at an 81%. At this point I knew I had a failing grade because that was the last assignment to be submitted. I then texted the dean of the program (I go to a small school so she is close with most of the students) and asked her to call me. When she did, she said my professor said I wasn't turning assigments in on time and therefore wasn't passing. I explained my situation to her but also said that I take full responsibility for not checking my e-mail, but also said that post-SIM has always been due at midnight in the past. She said she has to speak to the provost to decide what they will do. I have been anxious about it all weekend. I am a pretty good student and I do well on all my HESI's and have a 3.5 GPA and have made the Dean's List the past 3 years. The head of the program even told my mom how good of a student and standardized tester I was. I just don't know what to do and if I should try to fight it or if it's fair treatment for me to have to retake the course, which I don't even know if I can fit it in next semester with the class below me. If I can't fit it in with the 2 last nursing classes I need (I'm going into my last semester), then I will have to wait A WHOLE YEAR to take the course. I guess I just would like some insight or advice about the situation.