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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I ask a dumb question?  Are professors no longer allowed to use class participation as part of a grade?

I took many classes where class participation was like 10% of the grade.  Now, not every kid was called in every class, but it was enough of a stick that few skipped the class and most paid attention.

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In my classes, participation ranges from 10-25% of grade, depending on the course.  It's becoming more of a problem to grade, however.  Pre-COVID, students understood the expectation was that they would be in class every class.  (Of course, students skipped, but they knew they were 'breaking the rules.')  I always build a couple of free absences into the grading-- i.e., you can miss 2 classes and still get full score on participation.  And I never had a student even suggest that they should get an exception.  Now, students seem to very earnestly think they'll get excused absences for every little thing--headache, mental health day, etc.  The reason it's becoming difficult to enforce is that there's still an expectation that you don't come to class if you may have Covid, and there's really no way to verify Covid (no one is getting formal tests anymore).  So if all a kid has to do is say they think they have Covid, then it's challenging to enforce attendance for everyone.  (Since I know that some kids are lying about Covid, I hate to penalize who are NOT lying but say they have some other reason.)  [/quote]

That’s interesting…my kid has a professor like you but the two absences are absolute (at least the official word)…if you get COVID, then you miss two classes and you should be back.

He basically says to bank those two absences for a Covid outbreak.

Of course no idea if the professor is actually as hard a** as his talk…though he has no problem failing kids (more accurately, they are failing and drop
The class before an F is printed).[/quote]

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