TIMS Down - 2/19/14

[Carolyn_Grace]

This is not the first time that servers have crashed around Awards time. FIRST has sent out multiple reminders about when Dean's List projects are due. In college, most of us are taught that deadlines mean hard deadlines. It's real life. There was plenty of time to submit early. I expect my students to submit essays before the deadline (goal is a week before, though this year one team did them the day before and another team did them 12 hours before).

If I had not gotten my Dean's List submissions in on time because of server issues, I would have to go to my team and say, "I had time to write these essays early and submit early, and I failed to do that. I'm sorry, but it is my fault that these did not get submitted." It would be embarrassing to do this, but it would also show students the right way to apologize for something, instead of blaming something/someone else. It's frustrating, yes, but the servers crashing are ALWAYS a possibility around awards submission times.