Grading Late Assignments

[Aaron Tresham]

I usually grade and return assignments shortly after the due date. There are always a few students every semester who have some approximation of a good excuse for turning in an assignment late. Since I have already returned the assignment in SMC, there is a new folder of the form "Assignment Name - graded." My problem is that these students often complete their late assignment in this graded folder instead of the original assignment folder. Then when I collect their assignment, nothing has been done. I can open the returned file instead and grade that (although this is an extra step for me). However, I no longer have a copy of their work in my own project (I don't think there's a way to collect the graded file, other than opening the student's project and manually copying it to mine).

I think it would help if "graded" appeared at the beginning of the folder name instead of the end, e.g., "Graded - Assignment Name."

Another option would be to have a folder called "Graded," and all graded assignments would be in this folder. I would like this option, since my student's projects are cluttered enough with my assignments and handouts (15-20 folders), and when I grade the number of folders increases.

Does anyone else have an opinion about this?

Aaron

[John Jeng]

I will make the first change. "Assignment Name - graded." --> "Graded - Assignment Name." It makes a lot of sense from a usage perspective. If the problem persists, we'll consider bigger changes.

[William Stein]

Now https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues/1902

On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 1:24:45 PM UTC-7, Aaron Tresham wrote:

[Aaron Tresham]

Thank you. I think this change will make it more obvious that a graded assignment is available, so perhaps students will be more likely to look at it!