{"id":43,"date":"2008-12-24T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panlab.cs.uvic.ca\/blog\/2008\/12\/24\/talking-to-our-colleagues-was-re-too-many-a-grades-in-a-class\/"},"modified":"2021-09-27T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T04:31:49","slug":"talking-to-our-colleagues-was-re-too-many-a-grades-in-a-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/24\/talking-to-our-colleagues-was-re-too-many-a-grades-in-a-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to our colleagues (was: RE: Too many A+ grades in a class)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>i think we all can have more trust on the professional judgment of our colleagues&#8212;i might be wrong, but i am not worried, as far as we can keep these things in an *open* and *fair* manner: talking to our colleagues<\/p>\n<p>(so probably it is the time to leave the office door open while inside, and to remove the cover from the door window&#8212;encourage our colleagues to knock your door if they see you still have a chance to talk)<\/p>\n<p>i believe both they are doing their job with professional consciousness. i also believe the students have done really hard to get their a+, if not, next year, we probably have 70 students in this class<\/p>\n<p>(i am not against blackboard or moodle, but i really encourage people to have course\/research materials publicly accessible, as a service to the community, as well as letting students know an a+ is a real a+)<\/p>\n<p>after all, what&#8217;s the difference between worrying about giving out too many a+&#8217;s and letting students shortcut our academic and research programs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! i think we all can have more trust on the professional judgment of our colleagues&#8212;i might be wrong, but i am not worried, as far as we can keep these things in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/24\/talking-to-our-colleagues-was-re-too-many-a-grades-in-a-class\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csc","category-uvic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan.uvic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}