For this year, I decided to give my students more freedom in terms of their assessments, based on the current trend I’m reading about in HE literature. There’s a lot of creative license and a few bits of help I’ve offered (e.g. suggest layout) but overall, very few restrictions.

While I thought this would be a worthwhile endeavour, it’s backfired: I have never received as many calls for guidance, assistance, and clarification as I have this year. My students seem almost petrified of being creative and “getting it wrong” in spite of my reassurances.

There are maaaany variables here, and too many to address and describe on Twitter, but it’s been an eye-opening experience. I’ll continue to work to ensure they receive the best outcomes possible, but it’s caused my already crazy workload to go through the roof