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Grading Philosophy:
Please understand that I do not care about your grades, I care about your
education. My job is to teach you, your job is to learn what I teach you, and
hopefully more. If we both do our jobs, grades shouldn’t be necessary.
An instructor once said to me, “if you do everything that is expected of you in
this class, then you will earn a “C”. Because only doing what is expected is
average, and a “C” represents an average grade. If you want a “B,” do more
than is expected, if you want an “A,” do a lot more than is expected.”
I embraced this philosophy as a student and discovered something amazing.
When I did more than what was expected, I learned more, and when I did a
lot more than was expected, I learned a lot more. Amazing huh?
The best way to succeed in my class is to NOT focus on - “what’s my grade” -
but instead focus on - “how much can I learn.” If you embrace this, you won’t
be doing assignments for grades, you’ll be doing them in order to learn, and
the grade will become secondary and take care of itself.
Grading Scale:
A (90 – 100%) B (80 – 89%) C (70 – 79%) D (60 – 69%) F (below 60%)
Attendance:
If you aren’t in class, you aren’t learning the material. The main advantage of
online courses is that you can “attend” class whenever you want. This is also
one of the largest disadvantages to online education because, without a set
meeting time, it takes a great deal of self discipline to make sure you log in
and get your work done.
Moodle tracks your log in time and, if you don’t log in enough hours, you
cannot pass the class. Credit hours are based on a certain number of hours
spent in the classroom, you are required to have a certain number of hours
per credit in order to pass.
Critiques:
Critiques are a crucial part of learning. During critiques, the instructor and
students will offer feedback on your work.
You are responsible for critiquing one of your own photos and one of your
classmates photos each week. Homework is due by Sunday night at midnight
and critiques are due the following Monday night by midnight. Half of your
grade each week is the photography, the other half is the critiques.
The following rules apply to critiques.