The grading thread

[Langue_doc]

Grades are in. Woohoohoohoohoo!

[mamselle]

DONE, at about 1:45 today.  (Grades are due by 5:30 p.m. Monday.)

I'm going to try to get my spring classes all updated and loaded in Bb before it gets taken down starting Tuesday, not to return until January 3.  The incentive is that, if I can manage it, I will have a glorious nearly month-long beak to crochet, clean house, piddle around, and do a lot of nothing before we return on January 19.

Not to be a wet blanket, but knowing how all-things-IT can go...is there a way to be sure they won't lose it between the bring-down and the take-back-up?

I don't imagine you'd want to do the same work twice...

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Finished today's 15! I start at 16h00 because things took up the whole beginning of the day, and I've had a headache for hours (though thankfully not a migraine, which is what I usually get), and I've uncovered two new plagiarists. Including my second-ever instance of someone copy-pasting a 1000-word chunk of the reading they're supposed to be discussing and changing a few words here and there. Sigh.

Nine more to go tomorrow, plus odds and ends.

DONE, at about 1:45 today.  (Grades are due by 5:30 p.m. Monday.)

I'm going to try to get my spring classes all updated and loaded in Bb before it gets taken down starting Tuesday, not to return until January 3.  The incentive is that, if I can manage it, I will have a glorious nearly month-long beak to crochet, clean house, piddle around, and do a lot of nothing before we return on January 19.

Not to be a wet blanket, but knowing how all-things-IT can go...is there a way to be sure they won't lose it between the bring-down and the take-back-up?

I don't imagine you'd want to do the same work twice...

M.

Oh man. Last year (or was it last summer?), IT deleted my course shell the day after I finished setting it up! =p

[AmLitHist]

I'm going to archive my updated classes to my own media before the IT work.  If they muck something up, I'll have my classes on a flash drive so they can be copied into the Bb shells.  (And yes, this has happened in the past. I had archived versions to upload then, too, but enough people didn't and raised sufficient hell that I hope IT won't make a similar move this time.)

Great minds think alike......

[Parasaurolophus]

Last nine essays today, plus whatever remaining odds and ends there are. Like tabulating attendance/participation (yuck).

[Langue_doc]

Finished today's 15! I start at 16h00 because things took up the whole beginning of the day, and I've had a headache for hours (though thankfully not a migraine, which is what I usually get), and I've uncovered two new plagiarists. Including my second-ever instance of someone copy-pasting a 1000-word chunk of the reading they're supposed to be discussing and changing a few words here and there. Sigh.

I once had a plagiarist copy and paste two 500-word chunks from two separate websites with nary a change or even a transition word linking the two chunks.

[Parasaurolophus]

Essays done, but Moodle is down, so I can't proceed until it's back. Sigh. I was hoping tomorrow all I'd have to do was enter the grades.

[FishProf]

I've read all the papers from the last assignment.  No one was even close to the target, even students who have been nailing it all semester.

I blame the Professor.

[spork]

A student emailed what I regard as an attempt at extortion about a project grade. "Several of us are reaching out to administration regarding this matter, but if there's anything we can do to fix this grade without contacting the administration please let me know." The student has a final course grade of B, but is obviously too stupid to understand the numbers in the LMS gradebook. I am contemplating reporting this to the dean.

[Langue_doc]

A student emailed what I regard as an attempt at extortion about a project grade. "Several of us are reaching out to administration regarding this matter, but if there's anything we can do to fix this grade without contacting the administration please let me know." The student has a final course grade of B, but is obviously too stupid to understand the numbers in the LMS gradebook. I am contemplating reporting this to the dean.

I would respond by referring the student to the grading policies in the syllabus and for this particular assignment, and copying the chair. I would also point out that the student has the option of appealing the grade.

Copying the dean in addition to the chair would also be effective in nipping this in the bud.

[Parasaurolophus]

Whew, finally done and submitted.


(It's so much nicer now that we don't have to submit a handwritten gradebook in addition to the three-step electronic reporting.)

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Congrats to everyone who finished grading!

I haven't had anyone contest grades (yet). Did I just jinx myself?

[fishbrains]

They are all finally in! Yeeeeeeeeeehaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note: A big thank you to our registrar who answered my desperate email while on her break.

[ergative]

I'm grading a project in which a student proposed expanding the age range of a group of experimental participants upwards to include 35-39 year-olds. Such a change, they advised soberly, would allow the experimenter to look at effects of aging and dementia on cognitive processing.

I considered and rejected several marginal comments before channeling Susan Collins and noting that I was 'concerned' about this bit of reasoning.

[KiUlv]

I'm grading a project in which a student proposed expanding the age range of a group of experimental participants upwards to include 35-39 year-olds. Such a change, they advised soberly, would allow the experimenter to look at effects of aging and dementia on cognitive processing.

Yikes! Them's fightin' words!