ETE Conf 2022 | Deadlines, Tests, and Sundry Assignments
Channel: Empower Teaching
Date: 2022-08-11

Presented by, 
Lisa Gabbert

In this presentation, I discuss my experience over the past two years experimenting with alternatives to traditional grading based on deadlines and time limits. For a variety of reasons, including COVID, I moved to open-book/open note tests with no time limit; options to re-do assignments, and open, flexible deadlines for assignments and participate in discussions. In this session, I discuss the results I have gathered from student feedback, as well as my own struggle with whether or not such a move is a lowering of standards or a radical increase in accessibility.

*Participants will learn how to structure their semester and organize assignments without deadlines and timeframes in a way that is not overwhelming to you as the instructor, yet enhances accessibility for the students.