Hi Alison, I find that the peer reviews at midterm and the final one take care of penalizing absent or unprepared students. It would be hard to put in some penalty now if you have not already specified it in your syllabus. Kare ___________________________________________________________________ Karen Peterson Department of English Humanities 263 251-460-6148 251-709-8434 cell University of South Alabama 5991 USA Drive, North Room 240 Mobile, AL 36688 On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Alison Bates <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am teaching my first TBL course and decided to grade the in-class > application exercises (upon several threads here since the semester > started, I probably wouldn’t do this again). Regardless, I am having a > problem: absent students during graded in-class work. It’s not widespread > but nonetheless each class maybe 1-2 absent students. I did not specify in > my syllabus how this would be handled. My first reaction was to give the > missing students a 0 for that exercise, but I do have the peer multiplier > built into group grades. How have others dealt with this issue? > > Thanks for any advice, > > Alison > > > Alison Bates > Lecturer (Renewable Energy & Sustainability) > Department of Environmental Conservation > University of Massachusetts Amherst > Holdsworth 209 > 160 Holdsworth Way > Amherst, MA 01003 > [log in to unmask] > 413-545-1768 > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click here. > <https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1> > > Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on > the UBC IT website. > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click the following link: https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1 Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website.