Why is it that we are now almost at the end of fourth quarter and my students are still putting incomplete work in the "turn in" box? This blows my mind. Do they want Zeros? I don't think they do because when I put it back in the "unfinished work" folder, they hop to work on it. It's fourth quarter. The system has not changed once all year (or for the last three years, for that matter.) They are clearly marked, always referred to properly, and in clear view. Grading work becomes an exercise in sorting unfinished and finished work (and not just "finished" by my standards.)
/end rant.
