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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With distance learning I have a lot more time for grading so I’m providing more specific feedback than usual on work. I’m not grading any harder, but may seem harder because of the volume of comments, but this is a good opportunity to help students improve things that might be overlooked when grading 50 essays during my planning vs during hours of office hours that students may not show up for. [/quote]

And also we are getting about 1/10th the volume of work. Most kids are barely turning in anything at all so if I only get 5 pieces of writing I can spend 10 minutes on each giving really useful feedback (which is not a grade). That’s a luxury I don’t have when I’m getting 115 assignments. [/quote]

In one of my two preps, I’m getting the regular volume of work back from kids. It took about 2 hours per class to grade their short essays this weekend. Revisions are due Friday. It is much harder though to get work from the other set of students. This is the group that we used to say needed to build grit. I don’t know what the current jargon is, but they tend to give up as soon as they experience any level of frustration with the task. I write a lot of emails begging for work and offering one on one assistance. So, less grading from them, but no increase in downtime because of all the emailing and documenting the emails.[/quote]

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