Back to School for GrownUps

So …. how neurotic are you?

About marks, I mean?

Me, I tend to place somewhere toward the high end of the scale…. maybe just a ~few~ degrees past it

I like feedback. I like to know what my mark is. On courses, on assignments… whatever! On all of it!

I thought our marks would be up last Monday - like the undergrads.  A couple of profs had mentioned that they had to get marks in at the same time those of us teaching/marking undergrads did.

Logged into see my marks last Monday afternoon and got a message saying that they were being processed and would be available this Monday.

Except that they were not.

Still not a single blessed mark showing - and nothing back from profs - and I am getting increasingly antsy.

I don’t know that I actually want my fiction/nonfiction paper back, actually - although a final mark for the course would be most welcome. But I am really, really impatient about the musical. I want to know what he thought of it - and what mark I got.

And I do not want to wait any more. 

Seriously - I cannot imagine making my students wait this long for  marks - ever. But then, I tend to ‘cheat’ … rather than spend half my life marking, I set things up to be easily marked in class as student’s finish up. I tell them their marks on the spot, and plug it into the already set up to calculate itself online gradebook.

Yeah, I’m just lazy like that

But my students do appreciate that they generally never wait long at all for their marks. At least in my computer courses - and when I can, I do it in my English seminar groups as well…. speaking of which, my last straggler’s essay # 2 came in (in readable form) late last night… suppose I should mark it and send it back to her.

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