Tardiness is rude and demonstrates a lack of consideration towards me and your colleagues. I hand out assignments and hand back graded work once. I do not feel I should have to keep dragging back and forth from office to classroom hand outs or graded assignments for those who do not come to class. The following briefly describes the requirements. The actual assignments are on the web page.
Research indicates that working with peers in heterogeneous learning groups does increase learning.
Working in collaborative groups gives you a chance to meet other students in the class with whom you can share notes, form study groups, and learn to problem-solve as a group. This method of evaluation eliminates these problems. In real life problems are solved by cooperating working groups. This provides you with real-life experience. This method provides a mechanism in which you come to class prepared.