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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Karen, et al,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Some other options:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>1. Limit the grades on those papers to a maximum of C
(passing). (Really, it's hard to argue for an A if one doesn't follow
instructions.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>2. If you have a penalty clause for the other papers --
for mine, they lose 5 percentage points for each week I don't have the
electronic copy -- then you can always, say, submit a Grade Delay, then count
how many weeks it takes for them to catch up with their
submissions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>3. No one's suggested it yet, but honestly, what
about a zero? (Or half-credit, 50%). It's the end of the term. For most of them,
it's their second term with these sorts of requirements, and not just in one
class per term. Certainly by now an adult-aged, responsible,
motivated, intelligent student would have caught on to the whole Safe
Assignments thing, and realized that blowing it off is Not A Good Thing.
You're certainly being reasonable if you assume they're doing it deliberately.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Perhaps I'm more inclined than normal toward hard-nosed
because I've seen more than the usual amount of this sort of flakiness this
term, and I'm starting to agree with those who say the
current crop are too coddled. I still have some similar formaltities
that several of my students are blowing off, and my thinking at this point
in the process is to just let them lemming their way off that cliff.
</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Also not on their side: I have a newborn, and neither of
us is sleeping. My students know this. They should know better than to mess with
that kind of cranky brain chemistry. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Gray</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mikrenrut@hotmail.com href="mailto:mikrenrut@hotmail.com">Kimberly
Turner</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=kpolster@sbcglobal.net
href="mailto:kpolster@sbcglobal.net">kpolster@sbcglobal.net</A> ; <A
title=englecturers@lists.ucr.edu
href="mailto:englecturers@lists.ucr.edu">englecturers@lists.ucr.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 20, 2009 10:16
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: UWP Lecturers Safe
Assign</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Karen,<BR>I usually "threaten" students who don't upload that I
may have to delay their grades. I have had them still not post to
safeassign though.<BR> <BR>If I don't suspect plagiarism on the papers, I
let it slide after I spot check a couple of sentences in a google
search. If I do suspect plagiarism, I try emailing the student to let
him/her know that I'm delaying the grade, and then I search for plagiarism the
old-fashioned way. Students generally submit their papers at this
point. When I do find plagiarism at the end of the quarter - or when I
suspect I've found it - I use the grade delay and start the process with the
Academic Misconduct office.<BR> <BR><BR>Kim Turner
mikrenrut@hotmail.com<BR><BR><BR> <BR>
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:26:06 -0700<BR>From: kpolster@sbcglobal.net<BR>To:
englecturers@lists.ucr.edu<BR>Subject: UWP Lecturers Safe Assign<BR><BR>
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<DIV>Hello:</DIV>
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<DIV>I have a few students who forgot and/or failed to upload their final
paper to Safe Assign. I have a printed copy of their papers to
grade. I have been unable to reach them through email. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>How do you handle this situation? Do you not accept the paper
at all, or reduce their grade? Or . . . .?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks so much, and Happy Grading !<BR> <FONT face=system><EM>Karen
L. Polster</EM></FONT></DIV>
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