Greetings fellow peoples of the Internet, I have come to ask your opinion on how I handled this recent matter, read on!
Last year our school decided to completely digitalize all assignments, uploading them, marking them, feedback on them, the whole works. Now I would normally have no problem with the school moving in a progressive path, but the way they handled it last year was very poor, causing great confusion. But after a couple months I and the majority of the student body had worked out the system which we all were content with.
Beginning the new year, it was assumed that unless the technicians told us there was a change in the system (like they did last year) that it would stay the same. Now starting a week ago, when I decided that I would be a good student and hand in my draft for my first assignment, two days earlier than required. Being the aware pupil I am I followed the old procedure of uploading a draft, which was just that, ignoring the 'send for marking' button which as described in the previous year wasn't necessary as it would send that draft in replace of your final copy.
Now as you might of guessed, they changed the system, so now that 'send for marking' button was now required. Not telling any students!
The first thing I did when the teacher confronted me that I hadn't 'submitted' my draft was proceed to tell her my side of the story. She the told me that its not her fault and that if I wanted to argue my case I would have to take it to her superior, the principal.
I went and told him the story, only to receive a reply saying that I was in the wrong, for not understanding the system which they didn't teach me to use. Now I and other students have had our assignments failed because we didn't know how to use the system.
Am I and the other students in the wrong?
Last year our school decided to completely digitalize all assignments, uploading them, marking them, feedback on them, the whole works. Now I would normally have no problem with the school moving in a progressive path, but the way they handled it last year was very poor, causing great confusion. But after a couple months I and the majority of the student body had worked out the system which we all were content with.
Beginning the new year, it was assumed that unless the technicians told us there was a change in the system (like they did last year) that it would stay the same. Now starting a week ago, when I decided that I would be a good student and hand in my draft for my first assignment, two days earlier than required. Being the aware pupil I am I followed the old procedure of uploading a draft, which was just that, ignoring the 'send for marking' button which as described in the previous year wasn't necessary as it would send that draft in replace of your final copy.
Now as you might of guessed, they changed the system, so now that 'send for marking' button was now required. Not telling any students!
The first thing I did when the teacher confronted me that I hadn't 'submitted' my draft was proceed to tell her my side of the story. She the told me that its not her fault and that if I wanted to argue my case I would have to take it to her superior, the principal.
I went and told him the story, only to receive a reply saying that I was in the wrong, for not understanding the system which they didn't teach me to use. Now I and other students have had our assignments failed because we didn't know how to use the system.
Am I and the other students in the wrong?
