One of my classes has their final projects due at 11:59pm tonight and the ramp-up of more and more frantic student emails is really depressing.
They had to choose topics in February and turn in drafts in March, and yet it seems that most of them didn't actually start until today...not that I was any better as an undergrad, but man it hurts to watch!
...to make up for that, I have had a bazillion questions DURING the peer-review period (where students review each other's projects, scheduled during our final exam time).
Only 30 more minutes and I can lock the course website and stop monitoring my email so closely.
(And then I have to watch and grade 5 hours of student project videos...hopefully will be less terrible than marking exams?)
In the 200 level W class I teach with a handful of faculty, we scaffold like crazy. Lots of low stakes milestones.
I’ve told them there are two purposes: to prevent the behavior you’ve described and to show them in the long run it’s a less stressful and more productive process.
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