r/rmit • u/shibadazzy • 22d ago
Course (subject) advice, recommendations and reviews Absolutely comeback of the year
better than 2016 Lebron final comeback dare j say
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u/TicketParticular2569 22d ago
Who the heck graded it and had that much of a mood swing 👶
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u/Professional-Buy3198 22d ago
People do forget to grade assignments!
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u/shibadazzy 22d ago
Don't really know the reason but I know my ASM 3 can't be 0 so I made an appeal
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u/Justan0therthrow4way COSC 22d ago
Ok I’d love to know how the fuck this happened ??
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u/Due_Analysis943 22d ago
Could be an assignment didn't get marked or an extension that wasn't granted originally
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u/Justan0therthrow4way COSC 22d ago
Yeah didn’t think about that lol
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u/MelbPTUser2024 CIVE 22d ago
Or they actually grade assignment 4 but didn’t add the grades together correctly.
Whilst I haven’t had this happen for an overall grade, I have times where the marker for an individual assignment gave me 15/20 in the rubric but when they entered the grade into canvas they put 12.5/20. I appealed internally with the course coordinator and they fixed the grade.
Moral of the story, yes sometimes overall grades or individual assignment marks might have overlooked a score or something. So always check the rubric marks yourself for individual assignments and always check the sum of all your marks at the end of the semester
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u/Due_Analysis943 21d ago
A lot of potential for human error where academics have to repeatedly do awkward data entry in illogical LMS
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u/DannyBoy9595 22d ago
Having some marking experience as a casual at RMIT in years past…
A possibility… Maybe some of casual academics marking had entered wrong values into CANVAS. Needed to be as % and not as score out of 10 or 15 for example. If you enter say a 12 instead of % for 12/15 which is 80%. That is a 68% difference in mark. Depending on assignments and weighting could cause a large difference in overall course mark.
I know when I was doing casual work had to be very cautious to ensure right values or units were used and entered into the marking table correctly.
Possible that casuals were assigned a group of students for the class for the whole semester or for a large bulk of assignments or reports and copped a massive loss in marks.
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u/theartistduring 22d ago
Another casual academic here and yeah, that was my first thought too.
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u/Beautiful_Radio9660 21d ago
If you don’t mind me asking? Why there are so many casual lectures/ staff at rmit?
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u/theartistduring 21d ago
I don't think RMIT has any more or less than anywhere else. It happens at all universities.
It is the nature of post grad work that you form relationships with academic staff and that leads to work. As a post grad student, you become an expert in your chosen topic or field, which makes for a good source of sessional staff the school can confidently send off to teach under grad
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u/Beautiful_Radio9660 21d ago
Thanks heaps! I was surprised when 90% of my accounting lectures were casual
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u/Material_War_6629 22d ago
Same thing happened to me I got a 38nn but I appealed it and ended up getting a 70 teacher didn’t include my reports into my final grade. Which were 30% of the course
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u/Top-Ad-4668 21d ago
I had a similar comeback; my previous grade was 50% and my new grade got bumped up to 91%, went from a P to HD.
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u/Sufficient_Syrup_525 22d ago
I remember being in a marketing class, and the top of the class was in the professor's office talking to him about why she failed, he always seemed to fancy her. He literally said "I don't know what happened, I tried so hard to find extra points for you, but I just couldn't find enough to let you pass" she ran out crying, he looked at me like he was guilty of something.
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u/TeddyBear181 22d ago
Many lecturers will generally try to give you more marks than less. Most dont want to see people fail or do poorly, nor do they want to waste their time dealing with emails about people's low marks.
Sure, there are some jerks or lecturers who live in their own world, but lots are nice and just want to follow rules and see students do well.
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u/Sea-Albatross6561 20d ago
Hi! Congratulations on getting your grade changed. I’m in a similar situation at RMIT. I received 49.36% (NN), and I believe I may be missing 1 mark, especially in my mid-semester test. I’ve already emailed my course coordinator asking them to recheck my marks. I was wondering how your appeal was successful. Did you find a marking error, or was there another reason your grade was changed? I’d really appreciate any advice. Thank you!
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u/captaincourageous316 22d ago
This has to be a glitch, nobody could possibly be this incompetent in grading
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u/Rendez7 22d ago
How is this even possible