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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers, is it standard practice, or maybe easier for you in the long run, to pre-grade quizzes and test and then go back and adjust the scores?

I receive canvas notifications and for a couple of classes I consistently get notifications of a 0/(whatever the total will be). And either the next day or later in the day have an updated grade.

My question is purely out of curiosity. I will admit that the first zeros I saw I was not happy with my kids but then I noticed that the grades always changed. [/quote]

As a parent, I've had a problem like this over the years.  At first, I would accuse the kids and it would sometimes create a pretty stressful situation (particularly for one kid who has a tendency not to turn in homework, so it was not at all helpful to have inaccurate data).

But it's sometimes worse than you think.  Some teachers have Canvas pre-grade multiple choice questions and hand grade short answer questions.  And we get a notice on the intermediate grade that makes it look like the kid failed the test.  In other words, we get a score of 6/11 (because canvas assumes 0 on the short answer questions) and it is ultimately updated to 11/11 once short answers are graded.[/quote]

Do you use Canvas from a teacher-end? This is...how the quizzes work. No one is "having" Canvas do something just to irk you. It auto-grades multiple choice and true false and matching, and for short answer or most fill-ins an actual human needs to review the answers (yes, even for fill-ins, which may be spelled differently than the correct answer inputs).

If teachers had to hand-grade multiple choice questions, there would be countless errors and tons of time wasted. When I give a test I say aloud and and in the written test instructions "this isn't final until I finish grading and say it's final, no matter what in-progress grades pop up." A student or two inevitable emails me because they aren't saying attention, and I could not IMAGINE parents emailing me about this. I would be so incredibly irritated. This is precisely why MCPS tells parents and kids not to look at grades anywhere but Synergy: THOSE are final, input by teachers when they are ready to input them. Anything else may add info to a situation, but isn't final, and it could muddy things up.

I teach in higher ed not K-12, but honestly, it's as if some people are looking for reasons to crap on teachers. Chill out, monitor your kid's Canvas if you want, but don't get so deep in the micromanaging that you're overcomplicating things or creating issues where they are none. I get it...I look at my MSers Canvas and remind them and ask them about things, but they always know what is final and what isn't. If your kid doesn't know or is too young to know or is not paying attention or capable of understanding how these grades work (or if the teacher isn't grading anything until the last day of the quarter) make a parent-teacher appointment to talk about how you can monitor effectively. But this...ain't it. [/quote]

NP. OP was asking for information. Why don't you provide it and stop there instead of giving a lecture.You are the one who needs to chill. [/quote]

It was a very helpful response, albeit incredibly and unduly hostile. I’m a long-time MCPS parent with kids in Hs and Ms and I’ve never had it explained.[/quote]

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