Grading at the last minute

[Anonymous]

Once again one of DC's middle school teachers is dumping grades into Canvas and pushing them to into synergy late last night and today. Grades still being added at noon today. Kidddo has been tracking and watching since this teacher has the rep of doing this and has emailed twice for this morning regarding assignments the teacher said were not turned in but were. The teacher then proceeds to reply back that the assignments were found and the grades will be updated. Ugg. I know teachers are busy, but this just seems to be beyond anything that is acceptable. My kid is online checking - what about all the others who are enjoying a day off. This is also a long time teacher, so not new to the system. Just voicing frustration.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, these teachers are really frustrating, OP. I agree. I think you're doing the right things though.

[Anonymous]

One of DSs teacher is updating grades this morning and another is still updating as of this afternoon. But his grade went from a B to A after missing assignments from when he was sick finally got entered. My kid is not looking at his grades but I keep getting emails about grades entered otherwise I wouldn’t know either.

[Anonymous]

All semester long one of my son’s classes was showing 0 missing assignments and to his knowledge he didn’t have any missing. Today(!) all of a sudden he is showing 1 missing. He is annoyed and so am I. He still has an A but this last minute grading and catching up can mess up some kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All semester long one of my son’s classes was showing 0 missing assignments and to his knowledge he didn’t have any missing. Today(!) all of a sudden he is showing 1 missing. He is annoyed and so am I. He still has an A but this last minute grading and catching up can mess up some kids.

It'd almost as like your son should have know what his assignments were prior to the end of the semester.

Yeah, stop blaming everyone else when you really need to be looking in a mirror.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All semester long one of my son’s classes was showing 0 missing assignments and to his knowledge he didn’t have any missing. Today(!) all of a sudden he is showing 1 missing. He is annoyed and so am I. He still has an A but this last minute grading and catching up can mess up some kids.

It'd almost as like your son should have know what his assignments were prior to the end of the semester.

Yeah, stop blaming everyone else when you really need to be looking in a mirror.

Are you this nasty in real life or do you just like to be mean to strangers online?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All semester long one of my son’s classes was showing 0 missing assignments and to his knowledge he didn’t have any missing. Today(!) all of a sudden he is showing 1 missing. He is annoyed and so am I. He still has an A but this last minute grading and catching up can mess up some kids.

It'd almost as like your son should have know what his assignments were prior to the end of the semester.

Yeah, stop blaming everyone else when you really need to be looking in a mirror.

Are you this nasty in real life or do you just like to be mean to strangers online?

The message came across as nasty, but I agree with the previous poster. We cannot blame everything on teachers. We need to teach our kids how to be proactive if they're really grade conscious. My son has developed the habit of checking his Canvas every week to see which ones are marked as not submitted. I also check Parent Vue every week to see which work has not been graded, and I counter check it with my son's Canvas to make sure that he indeed submitted the work. Never had the problem of last-minute notification of missing assignment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All semester long one of my son’s classes was showing 0 missing assignments and to his knowledge he didn’t have any missing. Today(!) all of a sudden he is showing 1 missing. He is annoyed and so am I. He still has an A but this last minute grading and catching up can mess up some kids.

It'd almost as like your son should have know what his assignments were prior to the end of the semester.

Yeah, stop blaming everyone else when you really need to be looking in a mirror.

Are you this nasty in real life or do you just like to be mean to strangers online?

The message came across as nasty, but I agree with the previous poster. We cannot blame everything on teachers. We need to teach our kids how to be proactive if they're really grade conscious. My son has developed the habit of checking his Canvas every week to see which ones are marked as not submitted. I also check Parent Vue every week to see which work has not been graded, and I counter check it with my son's Canvas to make sure that he indeed submitted the work. Never had the problem of last-minute notification of missing assignment.

This assumes that a lot of teachers communicate in advance and run clear, organized and updated Canvas pages. I assure you thi sis not the case.

Stop defaulting to always assuming the teachers are blameless. A lot of teachers struggle or fail to offer insights and tools to allow students and parents to plan and manage without them.

[Anonymous]

Today is the teachers' grading day. Many teachers take advantage of the time..

[Anonymous]

Look, middle school grades DO NOT COUNT for anything so just calm yourself down. If your child is a junior in high school that really stinks because teachers are human and sometimes they make mistakes and grading so many things at the last minute makes it pretty much impossible to correct grading errors.

DC had an issue a couple of years ago where grades were misentered. The teacher gave DC the grades for a student who is next in line alphabetically and the teacher refused to correct. I was silly then as my child was in MS but felt it was the principle of the thing. Escalated to department head who also refused to do anything and I gave up. If my child were in high school I would have been furious.

[Anonymous]

Your kid needs to get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, middle school grades DO NOT COUNT for anything so just calm yourself down. If your child is a junior in high school that really stinks because teachers are human and sometimes they make mistakes and grading so many things at the last minute makes it pretty much impossible to correct grading errors.

DC had an issue a couple of years ago where grades were misentered. The teacher gave DC the grades for a student who is next in line alphabetically and the teacher refused to correct. I was silly then as my child was in MS but felt it was the principle of the thing. Escalated to department head who also refused to do anything and I gave up. If my child were in high school I would have been furious.

they do count for getting into application magnet programs and such. and that counts for college. so I guess these kids' lives are ruined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All semester long one of my son’s classes was showing 0 missing assignments and to his knowledge he didn’t have any missing. Today(!) all of a sudden he is showing 1 missing. He is annoyed and so am I. He still has an A but this last minute grading and catching up can mess up some kids.

It'd almost as like your son should have know what his assignments were prior to the end of the semester.

Yeah, stop blaming everyone else when you really need to be looking in a mirror.

So what is the purpose of “missing assignments” being prominently displayed in the gradebook if not to help kids keep track of assignments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All semester long one of my son’s classes was showing 0 missing assignments and to his knowledge he didn’t have any missing. Today(!) all of a sudden he is showing 1 missing. He is annoyed and so am I. He still has an A but this last minute grading and catching up can mess up some kids.

It'd almost as like your son should have know what his assignments were prior to the end of the semester.

Yeah, stop blaming everyone else when you really need to be looking in a mirror.

Are you this nasty in real life or do you just like to be mean to strangers online?

The message came across as nasty, but I agree with the previous poster. We cannot blame everything on teachers. We need to teach our kids how to be proactive if they're really grade conscious. My son has developed the habit of checking his Canvas every week to see which ones are marked as not submitted. I also check Parent Vue every week to see which work has not been graded, and I counter check it with my son's Canvas to make sure that he indeed submitted the work. Never had the problem of last-minute notification of missing assignment.

NP. You don't seem to understand that many teachers do not enter missing assignments and they don't propagate from Canvas if they are not Canvas assignments. The status of the assignment is "not graded" so a child will think they turned it in and the assignment will show up as missing only AFTER the teacher has gone through and graded everything.

This happened to DC last quarter for a class and it brought their grade down from an A to a B. This is a teacher who is completely disorganized herself and graded about 20 assignments the last day. DC swore they turned that assignment in but it was still marked missing and they had no recourse at that point since the grade was locked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once again one of DC's middle school teachers is dumping grades into Canvas and pushing them to into synergy late last night and today. Grades still being added at noon today. Kidddo has been tracking and watching since this teacher has the rep of doing this and has emailed twice for this morning regarding assignments the teacher said were not turned in but were. The teacher then proceeds to reply back that the assignments were found and the grades will be updated. Ugg. I know teachers are busy, but this just seems to be beyond anything that is acceptable. My kid is online checking - what about all the others who are enjoying a day off. This is also a long time teacher, so not new to the system. Just voicing frustration.

This sounds like a responsible teacher to email back so quickly and fix the issue. We have not had that experience.