How Does My Lecturer Know?

Call Me Jimmy

Ok here's the deal, we had a project due in yesterday (Friday) at 4pm.

I knew I wasn't going to get it finished in time and emailed the lecturer asking him what sort of late penalties we could expect. His reply was "5% a day".

The assignment is to be submitted into a sumission box.
What I want to know is, unless he comes in on saturday and sunday, how does he know what late penalty to give to me?

If I submitted it monday mornin before he gets to the box then how does he know who submitted friday/saturday/sunday?

Maybe he hacks the mainframe and checks the cameras but even then he couldn't tell who's who.

Anyone have any experience with this sorta situation?

PeakOutput

maybe he checks it friday evening.......saturday evening......sunday evening......if you dont think he does this drop it in monday morning

Shane_C

He doesn't check. Chances are he neither collects or corrects the assignments either, he just gets some postgrads to do it.
There is a common university myth that lecturers care about stuff like that. Best get Adam and Jamie on it.....

KenHy

In the business school the office staff pick up projects, and they do it lithely o the dot. I don't know if they are there during the weekend.

cooker3

The chances are he doesn't check, he doesn't really care either, most don't. I have seen projects in boxes for weeks on end after the deadline.

damnyanks

Put a dummy assignment in the box Saturday, check if its there on Sunday night. If it isnt then you know they've checked. If it is then you can get away with it.

But really you shouldnt be sumitting ltae :P

phantom_lord

i was wondering about this too. I just assumed fri-mon would count as a day later.

apathy is a terrible thing, but what u gonna do. isn't there an election on soon too? meh.

Call Me Jimmy

Thanks for the replies. I was thinking to myself, honestly what sort of sad bastard would be bothered going in to check on a saturday or sunday, it is the computing building (home of nerds) but still...

I'm takin my chances and submitting it monday. It's almost exactly a day AFTER the deadline and I'm still pissing about not really getting much of it done.

pwee

From my college days- the weekends didn't count penalty wise. I didn' go to dcu tho.

jd83

most colleges empty the submission box at the time of the deadline and then anything in it is marked late after that

damnyanks

We don't get any form of extension allowance. It's either everything or nothing.

griffdlk

Submissions are for 5 o'clock on Friday and the box is never checked until the Monday morning as staff go home on Friday at 5 on the dot.
Our lecturers have even told us this in the past.
Leaving it in Monday morning is fine and will not incur any penalty as nobody knows that you didn't leave it in on Friday.

KenHy

again may I point out that this is not the case in the business school, I had a project to hand in for 5 on a Friday and i was just there in time, the staff where there waiting to open the box at 5 on the dot and a class mate of mine lost marks for submitting it only 5 minutes later.

griffdlk

That is strange ... it was business school lecturers who told us that.
Who was your lecturer?

dK1NG

Once its due in at 4 on a fri, then odds are that the staff will empty the box sometime between 4 and 5; anything submitted after that happens will usually be docked the 5%.

segadreamcast

In EPL, and I think JR too, it's 5% per WEEKday.

Ste.phen

Unless of course the lecturer wants to correct them over the weekend, in which case they'll collect them on Friday at 5pm then head home

gamblitis

Ok i think everyone has taken this a little too far.I'm sure "5% a day" was just a threat to get you working on it as he expects it to be late and if you have it in on monday there will be no penalty incurred!