Hi Alison,

I agree with Kare.  Because you haven't built a policy into your syllabus, it's best to rely on the peer evaluations.  Granted, if you have a general attendance policy in your syllabus you could lean on that; for example, if they need to provide documentation of illness, etc. 

My syllabus details that they cannot make up team in-class applications because they have to be there to participate.  Keeping in mind that life happens, I do drop two scores at the end of the semester.  (To clarify, I don't grade in class applications.  They count for 20 participation points per activity).

I hope this helps.

Best,

Kristen

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:19 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


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Lecturer (Renewable Energy & Sustainability)
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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