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[quote=Anonymous]Teachers, could some of these issues be headed off by communicating with your students (if older) or their parents (if younger) a little more? As in messages to the entire class? I am a professor. I just finished writing messages to two of my classes. It's early in the semester, but in my messages I try to set expectations for how long it will take for certain assignments to get graded and I try to give class-level feedback on things (e.g. most of you did well with X but there seemed to be some confusion over Y...). I find that communicating frequently with the whole class prevents me from dealing with a lot of individual emails later.

I'm also trying to understand why parents can't see the things that are automatically graded. If a kid takes a math assessment online, why can't parents log on and see which questions they got correct and which they got incorrect? I want to help my child work on things they might be struggling with, but I can't if I don't see any of his work. All of this info is available for assessments I administer through our LMS. I also program in feedback so students can understand why a particular answer on a multiple choice assessment was right or wrong. This is a ton of work on the front end but I can re-use it so it's worth it. This would be very useful for HS. Maybe part of the issue is using content created by publishers or educational resource companies, rather than being able to create your own? I can't stand those kinds of pre-made resources. The questions are usually not written by a content expert and the assessments often lack the kind of feedback that would actually make them useful. If allowed some of you might find that taking the time to create your own stuff pays off in the long run. I imagine this isn't allowed by the district, which is unfortunate. The lack of autonomy is a main reason I would not want to teach K-12... [/quote]

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