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I hope I can just get my screen replaced. I can see okay but it's annoying. I think it got smashed in the travel adventures because I don't think anything leaked on it.

Anyway QBwH I think my last word was curacy. LB plaudit-thrown.

Happy solving!

Quote from: FishProf on April 29, 2024, 11:11:51 AMAbsolutely true.  I was on the committee that tightened up the incomplete rules at FishProfU.  It was the wild west.

We had professors that;
1) Gave EVERYONE an incomplete, so they had more time to grade; or
2) Gave EVERYONE without an A and Incomplete until they got to an A; or
3) Gave students an incomplete who could not ever pass, and thereby blocked them from repeating; or
4) Gave incompletes and allowed them to be fixed for years...

Now it's straightforward. 
1) Must be passing at time,
2) Must have completed most of the coursework;
3) Must complete the missing work by 8 weeks into next semester (summers excepted) or the grade becomes a failing grade. 
4) Extensions to the deadline must be approved at Dean level.

There was much grumbling, but the changes seem to have made incompletes the rarity they are meant to be

Similar rules here except the "missing work" is supposed to be resolved within 1 quarter.  This is not actually enforced except as emails from the Registrar to Department Chairs to get these resolved.

The scary thing here is that "Incomplete" is just one of the many options from the dropdown menu when entering grades.  Not even an "are you sure?" prompt to make sure folks know what it means.
Ditto for "Grade Delay" and "In Progress".

Good morning!

Pangram and above genius. Didn't get back to the bee after posting here.

ab_grp, good luck on finding the very colorful Scott's oriole! I don't think we get these birds in our part of the country.

My class was very small, somewhere around 50 total students, many of whom still live in the blue collar town we grew up in. We had a 25 year reunion back a few years ago, it seemed like maybe 20-25 people showed up.
I don't have much in common with most of them, we just happened to be in the same place at the same time. I don't do much social media but I do see postings from old classmates occasionally, some of them are remarkably the same person they were in high school, just older.
About five or six years ago when I was visiting my parents I ran into the woman who was our prom queen and her sister at a store. They recognized that I was their classmate but called me by the wrong name.
I don't mean to sound critical of the choices most of my former classmates have made, I genuinely hope they are happy. I doubt many of them are from what I have seen and read.

No serious flooding here, but in some places out in the county roads have been temporarily impassable.  One staff member called off yesterday because the roads were so bad where she lived.

It was very bright earlier this morning.  Now it's clouding over.  We're supposed to have another long siege of rainy weather start in a couple of days.  That could cause some problems.

Good morning!

Got the pangram and to a bit past genius so far.  Yesterday we needed bee buddy help with curacy, yuca.

No luck on LB.

Glad your trip went well, Langue_doc! I hope you get to get some rest in.  There's been an elusive Scott's Oriole in the tree for two days now.  We can hear him, and he sounds so close! But the foliage has started to grow in to the point that we can't find him! I guess he could be a she.  Maybe one day we will have luck.

Happy solving!

Quote from: marshwiggle on Today at 04:45:46 AM...
"Treat others as you would like to be treated" is entirely different than "Treat others as they would like to be treated."

I heartily agree with the former; the latter is a hole with no bottom.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

Sounds like a wonderful time!  Congratulations on all the good observations.  And on being able to visit such a good refuge.  It sounds like a lovely place, in addition to all the bird life.

No, I really haven't spoken to any of those people since I moved away decades ago (no desire to ever return to that state either!). Our school was somewhat large (>2000 students), so I didn't know most of them, anyway. I don't feel any need to see them again, I actually have trouble remembering most of their names...even those who were in my close friend circle.

Quote from: AmLitHist on April 29, 2024, 09:06:01 AM

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on April 28, 2024, 11:21:31 PMWell, I got the call. I'm giving too many As and failing too few students.

My numbers are very skewed by the one upper-level course I taught this year, where everyone did very well because of a generous concentration of points in low-stakes assessments--definitely too generous for a group who's actually going to regularly do the work.

But even so. Guess I have to be a hardass for the next few semesters.

I'm always waiting on the opposite email:  too many D/Fs, and too few passing grades.

HA! "They" don't care how many A's and B's my students get, but if there are any C's it is a "the sky is falling" call to arms disaster for everyone. For context: this is medical/allied health professional school courses, so a "C" is considered unsatisfactory (students must remain above 3.0 GPA),and <C = F and automatic dismissal.