Ever Had Any Trouble With Instructors Grading You?

[mrs.b]

Not all course mentors are created equal, unfortunately. I had some that graded near-instantly and were fantastic where feedback was concerned, while others... My microeconomics course mentor disappeared off the map from a week or two before the midterm until the end of the course; nothing was graded, no comments or responses to discussion board...nothing. The week before finals, another student and I put in a ticket to say we needed some form of grading as the final approached, and the course finished with the department head taking over (and miraculously, the original course mentor showed up a day or so after the dept head appeared on the course mentor listing).

My usual comfort zone before I'd start getting cranky about non-response or non-grading was two weeks. After that, I'd email the mentor to ask if I had submitted the assignment incorrectly as a prompt. Only in that one case did that not bring the mentor back to grade the assignments, where I had to resort to a ticket to the school.

Sorry you're having difficulties with a slow grader. Hang in there. If it happens again, try shooting the mentor an email directly. The mentor should've posted their contact information in the introductions, but it should also be listed somewhere in the links to the left of your assignment module.