12.16 Endpoint essay, finishing up the portfolio, grades

You wrote your endpoint essays and sent them to me via the course email.   Whew!   One more thing checked off.

College Composition Portfolios.  We then worked through the College Composition Portfolios.  I'm sorry I did not give you complete/accurate directions when I introduced it.  I know that made you some extra work.  With any luck - we got through all that today.  What I forgot to tell you was that all assignments, each individual asssignment, needed to be pasted in on its own page.  We spend most of the second part of class re-structuring thin college composition portfolios.  The sample College Composition portfolio, and the previous post on what to post to your collcomp portfolio list what assignments you need to post to this portfolio.

We also discussed setting the permissions  (available to anyone with the link, can view) and sharing (with me, and with collcomp@kean.edu).

If you have any further questions - we can talk them over on Thursday.

Grades:  At the end of class I briefly talked through my process for sending you your grades.  As soon as I have reviewed your completed portfolios (due at the end of class on Thursday), I will send you a final grade sheet, similar to the grade sheets I have sent throughout the semester.  If you want points from the last grade-so-far revised => YOU MUST NOTE THE ASSIGNMENTS YOU WANT ME TO RE-EVALUATE AT THE TOP OF THE COURSE REFLECTION PAGE FOR OUR COURSE PORTFOLIO (not the collcomp portfolio).  I will only re-grade material which you specifically (and accurately) request me to re-grade.

After I have graded everyone's portfolio, I will send your final gradesheets via your email.  I will also post a notice on the blog that I have sent the gradesheets.  After this notice, I will wait about 24-48 hours before turing grades in to Keanwise.  This gives us a chance to make sure I added everything up right, evaluated your work in a way that makes sense to you, and etc.  During this time period you are encouraged to let me know if there were any mistakes or issues that need to be re-considered.  If I don't hear from you, I will assume you are OK with your grade.  If I DO hear from you, we will discuss any issues you identify over email, and I will either revise the grade, or explain why I feel the grade needs to stay the same.  

After all issues have been aired, I will post grades to Keanwise.  At that point, if we discover there has been a mistake in calculating the grade, we will need to file a grade-change, or go through an appeal.

For next class:
We will meet in the non-computer classroom and I will bring food.  We will spend class evaluating the course.  Think about what could be done differently to help the course provide the best support for college writers that we can give them.

Good work today, thanks for your patience, and see you on Thursday.