Professor wants to meet me personally...

[Hawkeye11en1]

I gave a whole business plan to a good friend that was at Simpson at the time. I got a B on it at Iowa, and he got an A on it at Simpson.

Hmmm. Gave me a new perspective about the grading system. Different and very subjective.

 

[Cybyassociation]

I use the website Turnitin.com for my students. Pretty cool. It shows what percentage could be considered copied, where they got it from and then it shows you samples of both documents so you can compare. Pretty funny bringing kids in and asking them to explain their paper with a 90% similarity rating.

 

[DurangoCy]

Where are we with this? I'm going to need an update stat. Can we get some resolution today? Are you taking an official visit to DMACC?

 

[cy1010]

I use the website Turnitin.com for my students. Pretty cool. It shows what percentage could be considered copied, where they got it from and then it shows you samples of both documents so you can compare. Pretty funny bringing kids in and asking them to explain their paper with a 90% similarity rating.

When I was at the Univ. of Houston I had a student turn in a "paper" that he had simply printed off from a website. It even had the URL at the bottom of each page. Didn't need turnitin.com for that one.

 

[CycoCyclone]

c'mon man, this suspense is awful

 

[Rabbuk]

I'm waiting for him to be like "lol trolled"

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

Update: Hasn't emailed me back yet. I think he's toying with me

 

[CyinCo]

I had this happen once in "History of American Pop Culture" once...the guy had asked us to write a paper about an event that changed pop culture in the last 100 years. I wrote about Magic Johnson's HIV announcement. He called me in to tell me that I was missing the bigger issue that he was African American and playing in the NBA and that he was giving me a D because of it.

After I gave him the numbers on African Americans in the NBA he backed off and gave me a B-.

After working the real world for 15 year now, one thing I have learned is that professors don't understand a lot about what happens outside of the classroom. They are brilliant people when it comes to research and academics but real world application is missing.

 

[Cybyassociation]

Update: Hasn't emailed me back yet. I think he's toying with me

I dont think he is. If he hasnt put in a grade yet, he obviously has some sort of issue with your paper.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

It's been almost 24 hours since I replied. Don't know what the hold up is.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

It's been almost 24 hours since I replied. Don't know what the hold up is.

Profs don't work on Fridays :wink:

 

[everyyard]

It's been almost 24 hours since I replied. Don't know what the hold up is.

Ah...see, you called his bluff. He had nothing but a suspicion you might have copied and sent a vague email to see if he could get you to flinch enough that you convict yourself. Just wait him out and don't blink and you can beat this thing.

 

[Farnsworth]

One summer I was taking a Business Ethics course online and got pretty drunk one Thursday night and failed to complete my paper for Friday. I went ahead and "sent" in my homework stating 'attached in the assignment' and just did not attach anything. I waited a couple days to receive the 'nothing was attached' email to respond 'oops here it is', however I got nothing, checked Web CT a few days later and had a score of 92 for the assignment.

 

[VikesFan22]

From the Friday Confessions Thread:

I saw a professor leaving his office so I went in and used his computer to email one of his students that he wanted to talk to him about a recent paper he had submitted.

 

[CycloneJL]

That doesn't sound ethical...

One summer I was taking a Business Ethics course online and got pretty drunk one Thursday night and failed to complete my paper for Friday. I went ahead and

 

[bringmagicback]

One summer I was taking a Business Ethics course online and got pretty drunk one Thursday night and failed to complete my paper for Friday. I went ahead and "sent" in my homework stating 'attached in the assignment' and just did not attach anything. I waited a couple days to receive the 'nothing was attached' email to respond 'oops here it is', however I got nothing, checked Web CT a few days later and had a score of 92 for the assignment.

haha ive done that many times in school and at previous jobs, works everytime.

 

[Hawkeye11en1]

One summer I was taking a Business Ethics course online and got pretty drunk one Thursday night and failed to complete my paper for Friday. I went ahead and "sent" in my homework stating 'attached in the assignment' and just did not attach anything. I waited a couple days to receive the 'nothing was attached' email to respond 'oops here it is', however I got nothing, checked Web CT a few days later and had a score of 92 for the assignment.

Wow that's pretty good.

I had the same sort of thing happen but I had to actually do the paper. Supposed to just walk up and everyone hand them in, and then she grades and gives back next class. I decided to act like I did it and acted puzzled when I didn't get one back. She said she must have lost it and told me to email it to her when I got home. Of course I had finished by then and got full credit.

 

[cyclone101]

That doesn't sound ethical...

Your point? Sounds awesome to me.

 

[Farnsworth]

That doesn't sound ethical...

One summer I was taking a Business Ethics course online and got pretty drunk one Thursday night and failed to complete my paper for Friday. I went ahead and

That was the best part, it was a Business Ethics class. I guess it's to be expected though as I was taking a few online classes from DMACC as it was a cheap way to fill in some courses.

 

[3TrueFans]

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