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December 19, 2007
The biannual horror
I finished grading last night at about 9 and went to the Registrar's web tool to input the final grades for the last few folks in my 101 stack only to discover that one of my students is NOT on the roll. That's never happened to me! In fact, I'm not sure how it happened! He's been there all semester, he did all the work, and he got some flavor of B. He was certainly enrolled in the course's Blackboard site - and that happens automatically at the first of the semester, which implies that he WAS registered for the course at some point. I can add students myself, but I usually don't do that until they have officially added the course. I can imagine that I slipped up and put him into the Blackboard version of the course without checking the Registrar's list first, but if so it's a novel mistake for me. Argh!
--Update As best as the Registrar's folks and I can figure it, said student probably presented me with a drop/add sheet - which is usually my precondition for a manual addition to the Blackboard site - and then failed to turn it in. They noted that he had failed another class at the same time slot as mine, evidently for never having attended. Youths. What are you going to do?
Posted by CrankyProfessor at December 19, 2007 7:39 AM