The day of reckoning came at last - the deadline for first drafts of essay 1. It is now a week after the deadline and I still haven't received essays from some students. This morning I received a podcast from a student three weeks after the deadline. Implementing the rule that 10% is deducted for every 24 hours or part thereof that the work is late, this student of course will not receive a grade. I wonder if she realises this. Likewise these other students who haven't yet submitted an essay, 7 days after the deadline, are now down to receiving a maximum grade of 30% - assuming of course that they submit an essay today. I wonder what their strategy for passing the course is.
Those essays that I did receive were no more surprising than those I received in earlier semsesters. There were some students who didn't attain the minimum requirements with regard to length, there were some who didn't answer the questions they were asked and there were some that I just simply could not understand. However, none of this is new and I have to keep reminding myself that I get a fresh batch of students each semester; students who are learning things for the first time and although I may be teaching something for the umteenth time, they are struggling to master it for the first time.
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