I have two students who missed a quiz without giving me advance notice. My general rule is no makeup quizzes unless you've told me about your absence ahead of time and I've OKed it. Each of these two asked me if they could take a makeup. The quiz was on Monday, and I had OKed both of them to miss the previous Friday because they were sick, so I said OK, and we scheduled a time for them to come to my office to take the quiz. Neither one showed up.
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Neither one showed up.
Sucks to be them, pity about the grade.
Neither one showed up.
Sucks to be them, pity about the grade.
Seriously. Sounds like two zeroes to me.
Neither one showed up.I agree. Two no-shows, TWICE! Sounds like two zeros to me. When I was a guest instructor, I had 8 classes to teach all of audio for theater AND get them "designing" a scene, including editing of sound cues. Talk about 0-100mph in 10 seconds! So I put forth that there might be pop quizzes at random. Short things that count as 100% of your daily participation grade for the day. When the class was half empty (Monday morning)... Pop Quiz time! dudes, suck it up. I commuted 2 hours to get there by 9am. You can walk across campus to meet me there. Yes, I can be mean.
Yeah, I'm not giving second chances at makeup quizzes.
Short of traction, yeah. Goose Egg.
Srsly. Zero on the makeup, and if you're lucky they walk away with a wee lesson on "an appointment is actually an appointment and not just a suggestion to drop by any time".
No guarantees on that one: plenty of faculty still haven't managed it. But it's nice to dream.
I was always astounded by how much effort students will put into begging for make-up tests or alternate credit (almost infinite) versus how much effort they will put into actually doing the make-up test or alternate credit (basically none).
Why bother?