I hadn’t thought of that, but it turns out that yes, I do! I handle the grading in two phases; in phase one I assign grades, and in phase two I enter them into the grade book. The pain-in-the-ass aspect comes mostly in phase two. I don’t really mind grading late papers; it’s dealing with the school’s broken-ass computer system, Blackboard, that is really aggravating when I’m entering late grades. Or any grades, really, but late grades are worse.
Therefore the grades I assign should be fairly disentangled from any annoyance I may feel later in phase two.
(By the way, nice job thinking up that criticism. The ability to habitually see possible cognitive bias in everyday life is important, and needs to be lauded more.)
(Also, if you happen to be an educational institution, never use Blackboard. It’s the worst thing since BonziBuddy.)
I’m not denying that Blackboard sucks—my university uses it, too—but I’ve not had too much trouble entering grades by the download-edit-upload method. The download and upload options are in the “Grade Center” under “Manage”, and the file is tab-delimited (or some alternate option I have already forgotten about) and editable in Excel.
I hadn’t thought of that, but it turns out that yes, I do! I handle the grading in two phases; in phase one I assign grades, and in phase two I enter them into the grade book. The pain-in-the-ass aspect comes mostly in phase two. I don’t really mind grading late papers; it’s dealing with the school’s broken-ass computer system, Blackboard, that is really aggravating when I’m entering late grades. Or any grades, really, but late grades are worse.
Therefore the grades I assign should be fairly disentangled from any annoyance I may feel later in phase two.
(By the way, nice job thinking up that criticism. The ability to habitually see possible cognitive bias in everyday life is important, and needs to be lauded more.)
(Also, if you happen to be an educational institution, never use Blackboard. It’s the worst thing since BonziBuddy.)
I’m not denying that Blackboard sucks—my university uses it, too—but I’ve not had too much trouble entering grades by the download-edit-upload method. The download and upload options are in the “Grade Center” under “Manage”, and the file is tab-delimited (or some alternate option I have already forgotten about) and editable in Excel.