A Note on Proper Headings

I actually had to stop grading just to get on here and write this note.

I have seven classes, and more than  120 students. If every time I reach one of your assignments, I have to do detective work to figure out exactly what assignment it is, then I can only assume you have no consideration for anyone’s time but your own. If you cannot spend two extra seconds making sure that your work is properly labelled, then you are jeopardizing my time over something that requires little to no effort on your part. I quite simply DO NOT have time to try to decipher which assignment you’ve turned in.

STARTING TUESDAY, ANY ASSIGNMENT TURNED IN WITHOUT A PROPER LABEL WILL NOT BE GRADED. AT ALL.

By “proper label,” I mean your name, your period, the date, and the full name of the assignment as it appears on this website (including page numbers and problem numbers).

If I see nothing but “HW,” it gets a zero.

If I see “HW: #1-79,” then it’s missing page numbers, and it gets a zero.

If I see something like “CW #2,” it gets a zero.

If I see no way of identifying exactly which assignment it is, without having to launch an investigation and open the website to try to figure it out? It gets. A zero.

Bottom line. I am a busy man. Do not make me do any part of your homework for you. Have a little bit of consideration and a dash of common sense.

That is all. No more warnings.