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submission March 09, 2020 Score: 26 u/nygdan

Coronavirus, blackboard, and skipping lectures

Coronavirus, blackboard, and skipping lectures

Beyond any petitions, everyone should be pushing with their professors right now for more material to be put on blackboard. The more material that goes onto blackboard, the more you can rely on it for test preparation if you feel you have to skip class.

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Every campus has Blackboard, and every campus has even more online resources than that. If your prof has NOTHING on blackboard then start demanding that material be put up, they can not claim that their material is proprietary or that it can’t go onto blackboard, the campus has a contract with blackboard and each individual course section has it. It’s really important to do this now ESPECIALLY if your prof has put nothing up, because sometimes the section needs to be *activated* by IT at the profs request, and that can take a long time if the prof doesn’t know what they’re doing.

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Also, CUNY does not drop students for failure to attend and attendance isn’t actually even supposed to figure into your grade. Most profs attempt to get around this by saying ‘participation’ is 5–10% of your grade, but in normal times that can be fought. (As a separate issue, your federal aid and be denied if you *never* showed up and you can be dropped, that’s what confirmation of attendance is used for, not for grades though).

Right now with campus closures looming, students should be able to stop showing up to lecture-only classes and work off of online materials. You need to bring these issues up RIGHT NOW and not at the end of the semester when some wacky professor tries to fail you for this stuff.

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Escalate to their departmental chairs if they refuse to move material online and if that doesn’t work escalate directly to the Dean of Students, that’s the only reason that Dean exists.

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