You could possibly make any weekend assignments due to be turned in on Tuesday and use Monday as a reminding day to bring in their homework. If you're worried about students not doing their homework over the weekend, you could have a guardian signing and dating the work with the day it was completed.

As someone who is very forgetful and has ADHD, while many students (including myself when I was younger) use it as an excuse, it can often be a genuine inability to remember that they are actively looking for solutions to get around. I would recommend them solutions such as setting reminders in their phone or email, or writing notes for themselves in their notebook or even on their hand with a pen. If they seem receptive to these ideas, then you'll at least know they're being genuine versus simply making an excuse.

Use recess on Monday as a mandatory "study hall" period for students who don't get their homework done during the weekend. This will ensure the work gets done one way or another and will give students the choice of whether they want to have the freedom to do their work over a number of days or give up free time during the week to get their work done. Having to give up recess every Monday may encourage students to develop some way that will allow them to effectively remember their homework during the weekend.

I would try and avoid assigning mayor homework assignment for the weekends and instead have assignments due one weekdays like Tuesdays and Thursdays. That way students can be reminded of the assignment and its due date while also avoiding any excuse as to why they did not have their work done. Depending on the grade it may also be helpful to let parents know about the homework their kids need to have done and help them with it.

I suggest having a conversation with your students, letting them know that they need to complete their homework. You could set up a reward system to motivate them to complete their work and you could also send a note home to encourage parents to help with homework

Create small incentives for complete/returned homework. This will encourage those students who aren’t bringing back their homework without making it obvious.

If it more than one student doing this, figure out what is actually going on. Hand out a survey and make it anonymous so students don't feel singled out and you can see if they are truthful knowing it will be anonymous. Start taking points off assignments that are late or not turned in at all.

One suggestion could be a take home folder where they put all their homework in and bring it back the next day. If everyone does this you could reward them once with no homework for the weekend.

You could make the homework due on Tuesday. If due on Monday, you could let them turn it in the next day for a lower grade or two. However, I feel like some students genuinely forget so you could extend the period till 10:00 pm (or any time you find best) and let them email you their homework. Sunday you could send a reminder about the homework too.

Encourage students to log their assignments in a special notebook or online application. To establish the tone for the week, send reminders on Monday mornings. Each lesson begins with a review of the previous day's work and the collection of it. Discuss assignments and due dates with parents. Reward regular homework completion to encourage responsibility.

Make homework due Tuesdays instead. Weekends are difficult for young people. However, once a kid is a middle or high school student, continue to assign work due Mondays. This creates an environment where responsibility is key.

First of all, there should be some sort of instilled penalty system for late work. 10 points off per day it's late, capping at maybe 50% so they still have an opportunity to get their work in before the end of the grading period. Also, if the students are younger, I would have them assign a "homework folder" this folder contains all of the homework for the week. Parents should also be aware of this so they can help students put their work back in this folder for grading. The teacher can collect homework directly from this folder on a specific day of the week and give out a new packet to be done before next week. This routine and structure should help.

You can give them the deadline and tell them that if they do not turn it in by Monday there will be serious repercussions. These could be things such as no recess for them and the rest of the class gets recess and/or notes of concern getting sent home to parents telling them that their child did not turn in their homework by the deadline, so this will affect their overall grade in the class.

I would say you could start doing some homework that is online if your students have access, making an online reminder system for their homework and having due dates be on Fridays could all be things that could help prevent the forgetting of assignments.

I have found that there is guaranteed effectiveness when trying to enforce classroom policies when you say an expectation and stick to it. So if a student forgets their homework and the clear consequence to that is a 0, then you must enforce that 0 regardless of the student. This shows students that you mean what they say and there is no expectation that is up for dispute or negotiation.

I would suggest having a tracking chart so that you can give prizes to students who bring in their homework for 10 days in a row or something similar. Teach the students about actions and consequences.

One thing that you could do is turn it into a game. Maybe give out rewards or points to those that bring in their homework. I would give them several verbal reminders before the weekend to bring in their homework and maybe send a reminder email.

The most important thing to do is record who did and did not turn in their assignments. A way to motivate students is to explain the significance of turning in their homework and then have an open conversation with the class. Encourage students to voice any comments or concerns. If students continue to choose not to turn their assignments in, you can use a portion of Friday's class time for students to work independently on homework. The students will have time to work on the problems, ask any questions they have, and sometimes even finish their work.

I believe there are two possible solutions to fix the homework incompletion excuses. The first solution is through rewarding other students for completion, a choice of a piece of candy would be perfect for students completing weekend homework activities. The second solution would be getting parents involved to make sure they motivate their children to do their work.

Sadly, I think this problem can never be fully corrected. If it were becoming a widespread problem amongst many of the students I would perhaps think about starting a kind of reward system for over the weekend assignments.