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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Posting grades
Message-ID: <9286@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 88 02:19:44 GMT
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In article <26862@bu-cs.BU.EDU> cd@bu-cs.bu.edu (Clarence K. Din) writes:
|In article <9248@ihlpb.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) writes:

|>One method that works for posting grades is to let each student pick a
|>secret name/word at the beginning of the year, and post their grades
|>with the word they picked.  I can't see any problems with it (other
|>than pick bad names, but that is the student's fault, not the
|>professor's).

|Suppose John tells Jeff, "I got a 98 on the final exam... the highest grade
|in the class," and Jeff replies, "Oh, so you're 'tootsie'." :^)

This is the fault of the student, not the teacher.  There is nothing stopping
you from disclosing information about yourself.
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NEVIN ":-)" LIBER  AT&T Bell Laboratories  nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM  (312) 979-4751