lillibelle

I am wondering if I can make exam grading a bit more portable for myself. If you are a student, would you very much mind a professor asking for files of exams and papers and then having them graded and returned in e-book format? I could add comments as annotations and put the grade in an annotation at the end or beginning. The reader is free and I could put a link to it on my website. Would this cause mass rebellion?

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MrKlaatu

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OHMIGAWD!!!!!.......Ms. Lillibelle!!!
.............I didn't know I was in Class!!!!

Let me go put some clothes on!!!!!

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aardWolf

When I was a graduate student last semester (before I got my MBA), I had several professors that required our papers to be submitted in either Word or Excel files. The professors wrote our grades in an Excel spreadsheet, printed it out, then cut it into little paper slivers to be handed out in class. Getting back the results in ebook format would not have been a good thing... Although I would have been able to read it, 95% of my classmates would never even be able to get the free reader installed.

I think that having things submitted electronically is better (especially if you find it acceptable to grade things on a computer rather than printing it out), but stick to the traditional methods for distributing grades.

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lillibelle

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Let me go put some clothes on!!!!!

!!PLEASE!!

Honey, yo momma needs to feed you better.

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lillibelle

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95% of my classmates would never even be able to get the free reader installed[/b]

Right--I'm lucky if they can find the classroom on a regular basis. Perhaps if I made this an optional thing....

Why would anybody go to the trouble of printing out an XL sheet? Why not just e-mail the grades?

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aardWolf

With the Excel spreadsheet, you print it out and cut it up, then distribute in class by calling names. The problem with e-mail is that a lot of the students aren't using the university standard e-mail addresses, and it's annoying to try and find out who "cyberstud40123@aol.com" is. With e-mailing the grades, you'd have to write a different e-mail for each student matching their name to their e-mail address and grade. It seems much easier to use Excel.

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lillibelle

One of my colleagues has his students send him an e-mail at the beginning of each semester, then he just cuts and pastes the addresses to build distriubtion lists for each course. He also gives them quizzes on the syllabus........

When they use XL sheets to give out grades, how do you get the comments on your work?

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aardWolf

In that class we didn't. Another professor actually wrote out comments in Word and printed them out. I suppose that could have just as easily been e-mailed, since he already went through the trouble of creating 30+ individual documents.

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lillibelle

That's why I was thinking the reader format might work. That way, I could e-mail paper, comments, and grades all in one file--or rather two since the annotations are a separate file.

If we had the reader on our machines in the computer labs, that might make this more feasible, yes?

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aardWolf

Yes, I could see it being much more acceptable if the software was already preinstalled on machines available to the students. Still, you'd likely have your share of complainers...

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MrKlaatu

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(All of 5 years ago), When 3.5 Floppies weren't considered vieille école.......


I took a few classes (you didn't seriously think that was me up there, did you?). Everything was turned in on a floppy, the written label had the course info and your name on it. On the floppy were two copies of each assignment.

One Password Protected Read Only, by me and one left open. When it was returned to me after grading, the open one had been annotated/corrected/commented/graded and Password Protected by the Prof, and then passed back in class.

If you had any questions, you better have your floppy with you!

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lillibelle

Yes, well, what would be new about that?

Maybe I'll give them the option of submitting work and receiving grades this way. The others I'll just grade the normal way.

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aardWolf

I had one class that did something similar. Unfortunately, floppy disks are about as reliable as winning the lottery, so many students lost all of their work.

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MrKlaatu

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Originally posted by lillibelle Yes, well, what would be new about that?

Didn't say it was new, matter of fact stated it was 5 year old "technology"............antique today, I know.
But it worked.

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Originally posted by aardWolf Unfortunately, floppy disks are about as reliable as winning the lottery, so many students lost all of their work.

Eight different classes over 3 semesters, about 12 disks all-told, several hundred assignments..............never lost a one., me or anyone else in those classes.

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