My favourite way to deal with late assignments is to have the option to not do them in the first place. My psychology professor gave each of us three options: 1) do two assignments that count X%, and have the tests count Y% (default option); 2) do one assignment, and have the tests count proportionally more; 3) do zero assignments, and have the tests count for everything.
My ADHD ass chose the last option, and it was the only course that I scored 100% in.
I might be biased about this approach by the fact that I was the student in this scenario, but I’m willing to bet the professor was also happy with this arrangement, since it meant he had fewer assignments to grade.
That professor also had a policy about grading tests, where if almost everybody got a question wrong, he would drop that question from scoring altogether, but still score it for the few people who got it right, who would thus have the possibility of scoring more than 100% (i.e. 50⁄49).
He also was the only professor I had who always made sure to upload class materials at least a week before the associated class (if not earlier), and always organized them well and labelled them clearly, and at the beginning of each class gave everyone printouts of that day’s PowerPoint to write notes on.
My favourite way to deal with late assignments is to have the option to not do them in the first place. My psychology professor gave each of us three options: 1) do two assignments that count X%, and have the tests count Y% (default option); 2) do one assignment, and have the tests count proportionally more; 3) do zero assignments, and have the tests count for everything.
My ADHD ass chose the last option, and it was the only course that I scored 100% in.
I might be biased about this approach by the fact that I was the student in this scenario, but I’m willing to bet the professor was also happy with this arrangement, since it meant he had fewer assignments to grade.
That professor also had a policy about grading tests, where if almost everybody got a question wrong, he would drop that question from scoring altogether, but still score it for the few people who got it right, who would thus have the possibility of scoring more than 100% (i.e. 50⁄49).
He also was the only professor I had who always made sure to upload class materials at least a week before the associated class (if not earlier), and always organized them well and labelled them clearly, and at the beginning of each class gave everyone printouts of that day’s PowerPoint to write notes on.
I really, really, really liked that professor.