Timeline for As a department head, what to do if a professor leaves without giving out grades?
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| Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 | answer | added | Dennis | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 10:29 | comment | added | J.R. | @DavidRicherby - I agree that this should be taken up in the institution itself, but the situation is so strange there's no harm in seeing if someone has a good idea. It's also an instructive question, as it could prompt someone to implement a policy somewhere (for example, requiring instructors to enter grades into an LMS, so they can be recovered in the event of an incapacitating accident or sudden death.) | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 10:26 | comment | added | J.R. | @BenCrowell - Yet there's always a possibility that those materials would not be available for some reason (e.g., they could never be found, they were destroyed in the house fire, they are in a password-protected file, etc.) The entire situation sounds so odd that I wonder if the instructor lost his own records. In any case, could the school at least get back whatever wages were paid? | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 9:45 | comment | added | David Richerby | I don't understand why you're asking random strangers on the internet instead of talking to the relevant people in your university's administration. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 5:13 | comment | added | RoboKaren | It would be good if someone high-ranking would protect this question. We're getting cruft answers now. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 4:26 | answer | added | Bryan Ritter | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 1:33 | answer | added | Joshua | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 1:27 | comment | added | Bob Brown | Could you please edit the question to say whether a final exam or other assessment was actually administered to the classes? (The students should know this even if the missing prof hasn't told you.) Also, it may be helpful to know in what country this occurred. | |
| S Feb 24, 2015 at 1:25 | history | suggested | Melanie Shebel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2015 at 1:12 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 24, 2015 at 0:57 | answer | added | Keith | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 20:58 | comment | added | user1482 | @emory: This may not be quite the same thing as someone dying unexpectedly. In that situation, you would probably obtain the materials such as gradebook and final exams from the next of kin. | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 19:55 | answer | added | GWP | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 19:21 | comment | added | emory | What would you do if one of your instructors died at an inconvenient time? | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 17:34 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/569913223790641152 | ||
| Feb 23, 2015 at 14:16 | comment | added | GEdgar | It is maybe good to ask for ideas here. But of course your superiors (dean, provost, whatever they are called) are the ones to discuss this with. They may have experience of something similar in the past. And they have overall responsibility now. | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 14:06 | answer | added | paul | timeline score: -16 | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 7:32 | comment | added | earthling | To be clear, are you saying the prof administered an exam, took all of the exams (meaning you do not have the completed exams), and then simply never returned to the school? Do you have anything on which to base the students' grades or literally nothing at all? | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 6:13 | answer | added | Anonymous Mathematician | timeline score: 92 | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 5:41 | comment | added | RoboKaren | Can you get into the course management system (Blackboard, etc.) and see if there are any grades input? | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 5:41 | comment | added | RoboKaren | Do you mean - what to do about the grades? Or what to do about the fugitive faculty? | |
| Feb 23, 2015 at 5:31 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 23, 2015 at 5:31 | history | edited | ff524 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2015 at 5:30 | history | asked | Mohammad Hassan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |