This is something has always plagued me with my experiences with mental health episodes. If one of the issues you're dealing with is avoidance, get out in front of that as soon as you can. I usually set some reminders in my calendar to email my incomplete students every couple weeks, but usually if I haven't heard from them by the point the reminder pops up, it's too late. We're probably not going to be keeping tabs on you. Communicate to your professor if you're falling behind or need to adjust your schedule before it gets out of control. We're focused on current students and current classes, and the three of my 1000 students from last semester making up incompletes that always take four days to respond to my emails can be hard to prioritize. It's easy to forget about students that are resolving incompletes once the semester starts. Make sure you're communicating with your instructor, especially if you need help. Try to finish as many assignments as you can while you don't have to deal with other classes. Start working on the material as soon as you're able to - you might be able to do some of the work this semester, and I would definitely begin working through the material over the long winter break we have. Personally, I would probably very willing to let you delay your assignments from the initial schedule we set, but it's just going to make it extremely likely that you don't finish the work. Set up a reasonable schedule with your instructor early, and stick to it. Suggestions for successfully resolving an incomplete with a significant amount of the semester's material: Especially if you're trying to do a bunch at the same time, on top of a regular semester's worth of classes. If you happened to be my student, I would do whatever I could to work with you, but I'd also be frank and let you know it's really hard to finish incompletes. Or, better yet, late drop your higher workload courses and finish out the easier ones. It may be better to take a few L's and try to scrape by as best you can this semester than to give yourself 1/2 a semester's courses to finish at a self-motivated pace (after you may have forgotten the material from the first 1/2 of the semester) on top of whatever work you have next semester. But I've definitely never had a student successfully convert an incomplete that needed to be extended by a semester into a passing grade. You have until the end of the next semester to resolve the incomplete before it turns into an F, though the instructor can request an extension. Not saying I blame the student, but these issues often rollover to some extent to the next semester and it's just hard to set a schedule for yourself to complete the work, especially when there aren't necessarily classes to attend and you're dealing with resolving the incomplete on top of current classes. Inevitably, I end up setting a schedule with the student to make up the work at the start of the next semester (if I'm even able to get in touch with them), and then it gets delayed, and delayed, and delayed, and then the student ghosts me. I have had a fair number of students that have needed to take incompletes due to mental health issues and it's just so incredibly hard to make up a significant amount of material when you're not actually taking the class. I am generally very willing to give students incompletes if they are having issues, but their rate of conversion to a passing grade is absolutely awful unless the only thing you need to make up is the final. We would probably come up with a schedule for you to finish the assignments. I might give you modified versions of the assignments given in your semester, or I might ask you to take the exams/quizzes I'm giving next semester if it makes sense with your schedule. For an online class, I'd probably extend your access to the course Moodle page so you could continue to access all the materials while you finish your incomplete. First, what is an incomplete? It's an agreement between you and your instructor that you'll make up the work you've been unable to complete this semester next semester.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |