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



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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
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