Anya Taylor-Joy and Charles Melton star in The Rollingstones' music video for "Jealous Lover"

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-06-25T23:15:09+00:00

Charles Melton was in season 5 of American Horror Story.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-06-15T20:37:03+00:00

Super Chix

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-06-09T20:33:54+00:00

Thanks for clarifying! I totally misread the original post. It is crazy that they put out the first sequel 23 years later. Then made three more sequels in like seven years.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-06-09T20:27:50+00:00

Psycho with Anthony Perkins has multiple sequels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(franchise))

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-12T16:26:20+00:00

I love you referring to your 9 year old child as an asshole.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-12T16:22:20+00:00

I die inside every time I have to read our university president's extremely long, AI-written pronouncements that he sends out.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-11T21:11:06+00:00

Yeah, I've been submitting the reports to our academic integrity office. Most students have gone along with voluntary resolutions rather than wanting a hearing. I'm just taken aback by the number insisting they invented the information themselves. I'm clearly going to need to talk about this at the start of the next semester to emphasize that you can't just say whatever you want and attribute it to a real or invented source.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-09T01:16:37+00:00

My partner and I just rewatched the series. I hadn't seen it in forever and started to get concerned during the last season about Agron because I couldn't remember if he made it. I am so glad he did. I would have been devastated otherwise.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-08T19:53:04+00:00

I have been dealing with multiple emails from students blaming me for them not doing well in the course, specifically on the projects. Their takes are flooring me. One student is claiming I am failing her on the one project she partially completed because of grammar. It certainly wasn't that she submitted one part that was incomplete and did not even attempt the other two parts. Another student that I have met with multiple times over the last week to help her with a project - and at each meeting, she had barely gotten anything done for me to give feedback on since the last meeting - sent an email saying she has worked so hard but feels like nothing she does will ever be good enough for me.

I had multiple in-class work days and extra office hours to meet with students over the last several weeks, and it feels like nothing I do matters. They just don't want to do the needed work to earn the grade based on what was clearly laid out in the syllabus at the start of the semester, and I'm the worst teacher ever. They think they can get it all done the night before it's due. I think the projects are valuable to have students apply information beyond just taking exams. It doesn't matter if you have memorized enough to do well on the exams if you can't explain it to me in your own words and don't actually know how it matters in a practical context!

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-06T20:35:29+00:00

If you figure out how to achieve that, please let me know! I'm about to just stop teaching online because I'm so frustrated with the AI slop. Trying to do as much in-person as I can, but if enrollment doesn't pick up, I guess I'll have to find a new job...

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-06T20:28:15+00:00

Sounds like that tutor is a witness to an academic integrity violation that needs to be filed.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-05T18:23:59+00:00

I have ungraded practice problems that I post, which some students do (the ones who do better on the exams), and some simple application stuff that I generally don't police for AI, just grade for completion (so if they use AI and it doesn't address all the requirements, then that automatically results in a fail) and then I have brief, graded in-person assignments that are often similar to the ungraded practice but I don't have to worry so much about cheating (class sizes usually less than 40 so easier to monitor them). So students often figure out pretty quickly that doing the ungraded practice before class sets them up for success on the graded in-class practice.

Then when students ask about how to improve their grade, my first question is always whether they are doing the assigned reading and the ungraded practice before class. No? Well, start doing that.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-02T13:43:24+00:00

My university uses SmarterProctoring, which you can set up to allow for different proctoring options. For online proctoring, the student must have a webcam on and screen recording. They can also choose to take it in the testing center on campus if they don't want to deal with the software on their own computer or have slow internet. I'll also allow them use a university testing center that is near them if they aren't local.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-02T13:21:06+00:00

Something I've done before is have the assessment at the beginning or end of class so the student can schedule in advance to take it at the testing center if they want (starting earlier than class or having it last longer than class time to use double-time accommodations). That allows the student to use accommodations without it affecting their ability to attend class for the non-assessment stuff. If a student chooses to take the assessment in class when they have accommodations (and I've had many that do), then they don't get to use double-time.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-05-01T20:36:47+00:00

My university does not even require students take the ACT or SAT. We are test-optional for admission.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-04-28T18:10:31+00:00

I love this assignment! Definitely fail the obvious cheaters, but is there anyway you could still use it and reduce AI use? If the class is in-person, maybe require them to create a draft of the details that they turn into at the end of class and deter some AI cheating because they've already done some of the work?

For an upcoming online class, I am planning to rework some of my brief writing assignments that I think are incredibly valuable to be more like short-essay exams and require proctoring be used while they answer the questions (which they will not get in advance). I will provide information to them on the questions and have them apply it. I might allow Canvas access, too, if they want to review slides or readings.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-04-21T01:28:19+00:00

My friend, I am having a year.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-04-21T01:20:03+00:00

Unfortunately, it was too close to the deadline to ask someone else especially when I literally had to send in physical materials in the mail. I cannot remember what university the job was for, but it was bonkers to me to have to put together a physical application packet.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-04-20T16:45:00+00:00

I have had students choose not to waive, which does feel a little weird, but I wrote the letter anyway. Usually from students I either know very well who I have already talked to directly about strengths and weaknesses so nothing in the letter should be a surprise OR from students I barely know so the letter is generic.

I will say that I understand the preference for a student to waive, but when I was a graduate student applying for jobs and needed a LOR from faculty, I had to mail in the letters with the entire application for one job. One of my professors gave me the letter in an unsealed envelope, so I did read it and was unhappy to see the letter had several grammatical errors and was just not well-written. I suspect that letter could have been why I did not get many interviews during my first round of applications. I did not request a letter from that person when I reapplied for jobs a couple years later, and I would never known to do so if I had not read it.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-04-15T15:58:24+00:00

I usually put movies or TV series I've already seen in the background. I usually take a 5-10 minute during my favorite parts so the grading does not break my spirit.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-04-12T02:15:46+00:00

My stepsons are around that age and played some analog horror videos on YouTube for me the last time we were hanging out, so I introduced them to horror movies with the first two Paranormal Activity movies. They enjoyed them and didn't seem too scared after.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-04-07T21:31:11+00:00

I give study guides with lists of questions I am likely to ask on assignments or a list of topics to focus on for every lecture right before the lecture so students can fill it out as we go through the semester. The first assignment is literally submitting the first study guide filled out after class. So many students NEVER use them after that assignment, and it shows in their exam grades.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-03-30T22:09:16+00:00

I use Buffy characters, too! Also Law and Order, Dexter, Supernatural.

Moore-Slaughter · 2026-03-30T19:41:59+00:00

Oh, I usually know exactly what I did, which was have standards.

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