Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Finishing assignments
It certainly feels in this course, that the work load is not very well distributed. It feels as though i am jumping from assignment to assignment with very little turnaround time these last few weeks. Obviously i don't include the weekly quizzes in this, but having some weeks where two or more large assignments (tests, projects, etc) being due in the same week just seems like poor course loading on the side of the administrators. The lack of spacing on these assignments, while not unmanagable, does cause some vexation, especially when combined with the lack of timely posting of course work on the course's website. I don't understand why the tutorial assignment is posted the day before the class instead of giving students more time to take a look at the material say over the weekend when we might have time. While the tutorial handouts are not very difficult by themselves, the issue of posting the work the day before i feel does not allow student enough time to do the work if they are also busy working on assignments for other courses. Whereas every other class i have taken in my time at this university posts the assignments and the course work well ahead of the days they are due, in this class we are given 24 hours, sometimes much less. I understand not posting lecture slides and the like too far in advance as that acts as a disincentive for attendance, but there is no harm is letting us prepare for the tutorial and quiz in the week before class.
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