UWP Lecturers Safe Assign

[Gray Scott]

Karen, et al,

Some other options:

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.)
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.
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. 

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.  

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.  

- Gray
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kimberly Turner 
  To: kpolster at sbcglobal.net ; englecturers at lists.ucr.edu 
  Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:16 AM
  Subject: Re: UWP Lecturers Safe Assign


  Karen,
  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.
   
  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.
   

  Kim Turner mikrenrut at hotmail.com


   

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  Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:26:06 -0700
  From: kpolster at sbcglobal.net
  To: englecturers at lists.ucr.edu
  Subject: UWP Lecturers Safe Assign


  Hello:

  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.  

  How do you handle this situation?  Do you not accept the paper at all, or reduce their grade? Or . . . .?

  Thanks so much, and Happy Grading !
   Karen L. Polster


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