5.3 Submissions and Late Work

Most work will be submitted online.

Most online due dates will be set for 15 minutes before class begins (in order to discourage students from missing the first few minutes of class because they were uploading the homework).  In general, late submissions go to the bottom of my grading stack.  If you are a few minutes late submitting your online work, I probably won't even notice (as long as you're ready when it's time to start class).

Unless I agree to another arrangement in advance, assignments listed as Exercises or components of the research papers lose one letter grade per day they are late. (Any day when SHU classes are in session, including Saturday, counts as one day.)

Some assignments that are designed to give you specific preparation for a particular class (e.g. worksheets or reading responses) will be collected only at the beginning of the class when they are due.

If given a good reason, I am generally willing to be flexible. Nevertheless, some work (such as group projects and peer workshops) can't be made up.

If you are late submitting any part of a multi-step assignment, you might not get feedback from me before the next part of the assignment is due.  (I can try to plan ahead for this sort of thing if you let me know in advance.)

Worksheets or Workbooks

Items designated as "workbooks" or "worksheets" are brief assignments designed to help you focus on some area of knowledge, or give you practice on some skill that is about to feed into an upcoming assignment. I might ask you to explain the difference between paper and parchment; or give you a picture of an object and ask you to identify it and label the parts; or ask you to fold a piece of paper to make a signature for an octavo. We might do these during class time, or they might be homework.

Once I have collected the workbook submissions, or once the online deadline has passed, the opportunity to earn credit for it is gone. No individual workbook is worth very many points, so missing any one workbook is unlikely to have any significant impact on your grade. If you miss a workbook deadline, but want to complete the assignment anyway, I will be happy to arrange it if I can.

Turnitin.com: Exercises and Research Paper Components

Via Turnitin.com, submit the assignments designed as Exercises, Drafts, or Revisions. (I will send out an e-mail with instructions for setting up your Turnitin.com account.)

Getting Credit for Late Work

J-Web assignments close automatically. I won't be so rigid about the exercises and project components that you upload to Turnitin.com, or the online discussion that you carry on through your blogs.  But if your assignment has not appeared in its proper place by the time I finish marking all the work that was submitted on time, I may record a zero for a late assignment.

In order to remove that zero, you will need to tell me exactly assignment you have recently submitted. (Just send me an e-mail with the name of the assignment.)