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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

Some kids have disabilities or struggle. Good parents support their kids. They would not need it if teachers did instead.

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

If the child did in fact complete the assignment but continues to forget to turn it in after 5 consecutive school days of it being verbally addressed, as well as in writing on daily slides that are not only shown in class, but also uploaded to Canvas every day, then that is a problem that is well beyond my control and honestly should not be the responsibility of the teacher. At some point they need to learn that they won't always have their hand held and sometimes the problem is them.

I love.teachers who are so diligent, but we have at least one this year who mentions assignments once, doesn't upload lecture slides and announces retake on Sunday night for Monday lunch, announces big tests on 24 hour notice, and also does not explain the content well. Needless to say, the grade is suffering

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

If the child did in fact complete the assignment but continues to forget to turn it in after 5 consecutive school days of it being verbally addressed, as well as in writing on daily slides that are not only shown in class, but also uploaded to Canvas every day, then that is a problem that is well beyond my control and honestly should not be the responsibility of the teacher. At some point they need to learn that they won't always have their hand held and sometimes the problem is them.

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

If the child did in fact complete the assignment but continues to forget to turn it in after 5 consecutive school days of it being verbally addressed, as well as in writing on daily slides that are not only shown in class, but also uploaded to Canvas every day, then that is a problem that is well beyond my control and honestly should not be the responsibility of the teacher. At some point they need to learn that they won't always have their hand held and sometimes the problem is them.

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

The thing the doesn’t address is a kid that did the assignment but somehow forgot to turn it in. If they see a zero they know to follow up. If they only know there was a submitting error after it is too late to fix it, what can they do?

Ask me how I know.

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

I remind the students every single day during the daily agenda about upcoming due dates and deadlines. By 9th grade they shouldn't need mommy to remind them that something should have been completed 7 days ago. Are you going to go to work with your child every day when they grow up?

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Anonymous wrote:I love it!

The old system was so unfair. My oldest graduated with the old system, and it certainly benefited him on paper because he was at the border between A and B many times, and ended up with As. However MCPS looked so unprofessional next to FCPS (who has A- and A+) and other school systems that maybe some universities just mentally recalibrated the MCPS students' GPA - which hurts kids who really earned their As.

My youngest grumbled a bit but I was adamant that the new system is much more fair to everyone. This year's seniors had a note on their transcripts that the grading policy changed.

All is well.

All is not well, as my studious senior and their friends will tell you. It may become well, but I can promise you that many a senior this year, including those who normally work hard, felt the effects of changes especially as teachers grappled with all the changes(some well some not). It will likely get better but it is not all well yet. This due date/deadline madness is still crazy. It just needs to be one date. The only exemption is students with excused absence.

Anonymous wrote:I love it!

The old system was so unfair. My oldest graduated with the old system, and it certainly benefited him on paper because he was at the border between A and B many times, and ended up with As. However MCPS looked so unprofessional next to FCPS (who has A- and A+) and other school systems that maybe some universities just mentally recalibrated the MCPS students' GPA - which hurts kids who really earned their As.

My youngest grumbled a bit but I was adamant that the new system is much more fair to everyone. This year's seniors had a note on their transcripts that the grading policy changed.

All is well.

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Anonymous wrote:I admit I don’t use the Z in my gradebook. To my knowledge the Z is supposed to be a placeholder that says a student didn’t turn in an assignment but still can until the deadline. I avoid that by not syncing my grades until the deadline passes. If you did it the grade shows, if you didn’t its a zero. I basically sync the grades from canvas to synergy every week using this because there is always an assignment that reached its deadline every week. Longest you ever wait to see your grade is one week after you hopefully turned it in.

As a parent trying to help my kids learn to manage all the assignments across all their classes, the teachers that don’t post grades until after the deadline are the most frustrating. I can’t help my kids stay on top of assignments if I don’t even know they exist. Why only post the grade after the deadline, when there is no longer a chance to complete the assignment?

+1 Exactly! And many times it has nothing to do with the parent being involved at all. It’s a specific communication that the student can see in synergy so they know the teacher didn’t receive their submission and can sort it out before the deadline. Examples of times this has happened were a paper assignment was given when kid was on a field trip so it wasn’t in canvas, kid was verbally excused from a particular task but teacher forgot, a technical glitch prevented the electronic submission from reaching the teacher even though the kid had clicked submit, kid did paper assignment after absence and turned it in but teacher hadn’t put it in the original pile, etc. Numerous other examples. The teachers who promptly sync the grades are supportive and helpful. Many of these kids are actually trying their best not to miss due dates and deadlines. I encourage the teacher on here who waits until it’s too late to reconsider.