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[quote=Anonymous]HS teacher at a W school here. In some classes, a significant share of students have 504s or IEPs with flexible deadlines, which does help keep grades elevated. In my courses, overall distributions dropped and largely split between students who consistently submitted All Task work and those who did not. To esse this transition to actual deadlines with teeth, the "Achievement Team" of teachers that handles a particular course design could do this: front-load most All Task assignments in the first half of the quarter, reduce them later, and avoid new All Tasks in the final 3 weeks. I also limit Participation Points to about five assignments, weighted at 10% total, and teach students to sort the gradebook by assignment type, since PP often take disproportionate time and don’t meaningfully affect grades. Canvas allows you to reassign assignments and set unique due dates for individual students, which makes it easier to manage flexibility without creating end-of-quarter chaos. [/quote]

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