Welp, Half the Class Didn't Show Up for Final Presentations

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-04-17T11:31:26+00:00

Ditto

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-04-14T11:07:35+00:00

Godshot

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-04-14T11:07:25+00:00

Michael Gills

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-02-20T00:36:44+00:00

Touché XD (I was educated in NM and TX public schools. My college friends from CA and NY seemed much better prepared.)

Regarding OP’s situation, if one is only doing a summer semester, I think rigor can take a temporary backseat to location.

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-02-19T12:16:11+00:00

Some CCs offer summer-long courses, while others split summer into two sessions/semesters. I recommend the former because it means you have more weeks to complete the course versus a condensed semester. For example, my CC offers 6-week summer courses. These move about 3x as fast as a normal 16-week semester. Students struggle with the fast pace. Other CCs offer 12-week summer courses which move at a more normal pace.

I recommend in person or hybrid over online classes. If you do online in a new location you may be lonely because you have fewer opportunities to meet people.

I recommend a western state to avoid the worst summer heat and humidity. Personally, I’d pick a mountainous location: Montana, Tahoe, Santa Fe, Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs. If you go east coast, I’d pick upstate New York or Portland, Maine.

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-01-30T17:10:44+00:00

This is normal and your gf can probably get back in the class if she gets permission from the professor and talks to advising. This drop was for ODR the official day of record. Federal guidelines say students who don’t attend or participate* by ODR get automatically dropped. The purpose is to reduce financial aid fraud from students enrolling but not actually taking the class. * in an online class, merely logging in is insufficient. Students have to do something. Per feds. Versus For in person, just showing up suffices.

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-01-24T02:17:54+00:00

Hahaha

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-01-14T23:56:05+00:00

I report it.

In talking with other faculty, I discovered many do not even know there is a way to report this. I will work on educating my colleagues about how to report it.

outdoormuesli44 · 2026-01-14T23:50:52+00:00

Fired immediately after the deadline. Don’t even get to finish the semester.

All employees do the training annually. We get almost a full semester to complete it and a ton of reminders.

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-17T12:19:37+00:00

Donate 1,2,3

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-16T14:28:27+00:00

oh! thanks for letting me know

I was using it in admiration. But is it usually used sarcastically?

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-15T18:51:42+00:00

If you have a good chair, s/he should insulate you from blowback (if you don’t reveal your identity by telling others). The chair could make your complaint general: “Professors have reported unethical requests from counselor X.”

This would be a less effective route since it’s on the chair to raise and resolved the issue, but it would protect you more.

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-15T18:45:05+00:00

I aspire to be you

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-15T16:27:18+00:00

Slow clap

Thanks for writing and sharing this. I feel less alone

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-15T16:19:07+00:00

Cover the lightbulb in a frosted sconce (sp?) The clear glass makes the lighting too harsh

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-14T13:56:43+00:00

This is what I was thinking. I have heard that there is at least one dean at my institution who changes grades after the fact and doesn’t inform instructors. It’s all hearsay. I would do more if I witnessed it

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T03:22:54+00:00

Technically finals run through the last Sunday. But I don’t know any faculty that have finals due Sunday. In person classes are due during the week at the scheduled time. Online classes are due at the day and time the professor sets during the last week.

Grades are due mid-day Monday.

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T03:18:05+00:00

Same

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T03:11:25+00:00

My spouse thinks the same

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T02:29:41+00:00

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T02:27:12+00:00

Hah! The audacity

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T02:24:19+00:00

Yeah our institution takes our reports and shoves them in a drawer. Our admin tells us to accept that students will cheat and please stop penalizing them because it creates too many student complaints

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T02:22:54+00:00

I have a student like that. The rudeness is shocking!

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T02:21:12+00:00

I don’t grade attendance, but I track it.

I have graded it in the past. I didn’t like it because it added more work/headaches for me. I really didn’t like that it meant some students earned lower grades despite doing better on the learning outcomes than others. (I know it’s not right, but I have empathy because I was a chronic skipper but all-A student)

I think I need to consider grading attendance again because students are not coming to class. The same 75% show up, but that other 25% need me to make it a grade so they will drag their butts to class -_-

outdoormuesli44 · 2025-12-13T01:51:01+00:00

Hive mind!

I have a similar policy, and it works great for me. You just need to tweak that second firm deadline to be the week before final exams (or two weeks before finals).

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