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I just did a little exercise that I recommend every instructor do:
I went through my syllabus and rated each assessment as green, yellow, or red.
Green assessments are the easy grades, the ones that have right or wrong answers, can be graded with a key.
I went through my syllabus and rated each assessment as green, yellow, or red.
Green assessments are the easy grades, the ones that have right or wrong answers, can be graded with a key.
Yellow assessments are the ones that take some reading but good ones will generally have the same keywords. You can move through assignments quickly and provide synthetic comments to the class as a whole.
Red are the assignments that will take time and/or require close reading and feedback (or create a scenario that will suck you into doing this because each response will be unique)
The course I’m prepping scored okay:
4
3
4
I’ll probably still tweak things, might try to move a red to a yellow. Don’t exactly know, the semester is still two weeks out.
4
3
4
I’ll probably still tweak things, might try to move a red to a yellow. Don’t exactly know, the semester is still two weeks out.
I’ve been doing this kind of coding for years with graders I’ve had for one class, but only recently began applying to my own workload.
I don’t have a target ratio, but I think it’s a useful activity to visualize workload and get a feel for the course that moves beyond content
I don’t have a target ratio, but I think it’s a useful activity to visualize workload and get a feel for the course that moves beyond content
This activity may be really obvious for some people, but just in case it’s not, I’m sharing something that took me a bit to figure out:
If you overburden yourself you won’t give effective feed back and all of those red assessments won’t be any good for you or students
If you overburden yourself you won’t give effective feed back and all of those red assessments won’t be any good for you or students
This semester especially, delivering content in new formats, to students who may be taking a full courseload online for the first time, when you’re all juggling extra caretaking responsibilities and health anxiety
Just...treat you all with grace
Just...treat you all with grace
Anyway, I hope that my little
method might be helpful to some of you out there. #HigherEd
method might be helpful to some of you out there. #HigherEd
