TESU Capstone Fast track?

[fingerscrossedx2]

Has anyone been able to fast track completion of their capstone? I would LOVE to simply power through it but I am in the online class which requires the discussion questions. I'm cool with the questions and easy points they provide but as we approach part 4 of 6 I'm eager to finish it out. I am wondering if I can ask the facilitator to grade my sections once submitted instead of waiting until the actual due date.

What would be super awesome is if the grade for the class was submitted early too so I could make the next graduation instead of waiting until Sept!

[jsd]

I turned in all of my papers for the class early but they were never graded early. Though I never actually reached out to the mentor to ask them to grade early.

[dfrecore]

Certainly can't hurt to ask the mentor, and tell them your goal. I found that my mentor was always very accommodating, and might have been willing to do this for me if I'd asked (I didn't).

[High_Order1]

Doesn't work that way.

It works just like a normal brick and mortar course, with periods or whatever the term is. You can finish everything, but that mentor has to grade everyone in your class and the other classes they are carrying.

What happens if you accidentally flub something in a subsequent chapter? Best move is to just take advantage of the time allotted.

(For the record, I turned in almost everything early, and was done on almost everything early. I would have enjoyed a month off...)

[dfrecore]

Doesn't work that way.

It works just like a normal brick and mortar course, with periods or whatever the term is. You can finish everything, but that mentor has to grade everyone in your class and the other classes they are carrying.

What happens if you accidentally flub something in a subsequent chapter? Best move is to just take advantage of the time allotted.

(For the record, I turned in almost everything early, and was done on almost everything early. I would have enjoyed a month off...)

It still can't hurt to ask.  You have no idea if the mentor is even doing any other courses.  Maybe this is their only one.  Maybe they'd be more than willing to grade papers early, and to get that capstone course early.

You can figure out what grade you have easily, even with the course not yet completed, so if you get to the point where you're going to pass (or maybe even have a B), and don't need the remaining points to pass, who knows what they'd be willing to do?

[DIGI-212]

I think there may be an issue with how the Moodle classroom is set up. Each written assignment has a due date and you can technically resubmit each assignment up until that date. I’m not sure how it looks on the teachers end but that might present an issue with granting early grades.

[rlw74]

I begged my professor to let me finish early. I didn't even care if I had to go in every week to do the forum posts after the fact, or even if I didn't get the final grade until the end. He said no, he couldn't grade anything early. He said he had to read so many capstone papers it would be impossible for him to help students work ahead. Hopefully your professor says something different but I doubt it. They like to make corrections to each module and have you fix those before module 6. So submitting ahead wouldn't guarantee you didn't have to rewrite sections (even if they are really minor changes). It's all the graded and corrected modules that get turned in for the final module so I don't see how you could skip ahead on that anyway.

[dfrecore]

I begged my professor to let me finish early. I didn't even care if I had to go in every week to do the forum posts after the fact, or even if I didn't get the final grade until the end. He said no, he couldn't grade anything early. He said he had to read so many capstone papers it would be impossible for him to help students work ahead. Hopefully your professor says something different but I doubt it. They like to make corrections to each module and have you fix those before module 6. So submitting ahead wouldn't guarantee you didn't have to rewrite sections (even if they are really minor changes). It's all the graded and corrected modules that get turned in for the final module so I don't see how you could skip ahead on that anyway.

I guess it would depend also, on what your major was.  The BSBA capstone is not set up that way - we were actually told to start working on the capstone about halfway through the course, and while the weekly case studies were applicable to the final paper, it was not dependent on completing and getting back the paper before you could start or even finish the capstone.  It was really two totally separate things.  The capstone also had a choice of 3 topics to choose from, so you didn't have to do any pre-work on it - you just started it when you were ready to start.

[jsh1138]

each mentor is different and you are going to want to get their specific feedback on your first chapter in order to tweak subsequent chapters to their expectations. DO NOT do it all ahead of time and then just turn it in, that is an awful idea for the Capstone. do that with other classes, sure, but not this one

[High_Order1]

It still can't hurt to ask.  You have no idea if the mentor is even doing any other courses.  Maybe this is their only one.  Maybe they'd be more than willing to grade papers early, and to get that capstone course early.

You can figure out what grade you have easily, even with the course not yet completed, so if you get to the point where you're going to pass (or maybe even have a B), and don't need the remaining points to pass, who knows what they'd be willing to do?

I absolutely agree that fortune favors the bold. But I'm thinking there are accreditation issues; if you could do an accelerated one, they'd probably offer it. Something like metrics or something, if people are turning in stuff too early, it might be an indicator of class effort level, or something. I am sleepy, and probably not explaining myself well.