Is anyone else genuinely not interested in knowing what should be private details of another adult's health? I'm happy to point students to helpful resources that I know about, but treating them is not my job, nor am I interested in the liability of being seen as some sort of first responder. This is well and truly out of my wheelhouse, and I work to keep it that way.

Now that the end is in sight, how's it going?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/us/college-board-ap-exams-courses.html

What do you all think of the College Board’s AP program?

In another thread, @flooppoolf@lemmy.world made a post leading to the question "How long until we need to include a lesson on crafting appropriate AI prompts in order to help students use them as tools and not as unpaid ghost writers?" Are we already doing this?

I definitely discuss acceptable use and try to keep the guidelines brief and familiar (Treat it like a not-too-bright friend who's a patient sounding board). But how far do you all think we'll eventually have to wade into the weeds on this?

I know that we're all still feeling our way around this issue, but how are other profs handling it? What is good evidence of unauthorized AI use? How do you handle a student who refuses to engage in attempts to get their side of the story?

For my classes, we talk once a month or so about acceptable use (treat it like a not-very-bright friend who's overconfident and prone to hallucinations). It's okay to brainstorm, bounce ideas, and generally use AI to spark creative problem solving. It's not okay to have it do your assignments.

This fall, I have a student who seems unfamiliar with showering and deodorant. I haven't said anything, hoping that the issue is just a one-off and that it will resolve itself. However, we're quickly approaching the end of my patience, and I'm not sure how to proceed.

Everyone has a deodorant malfunction from time to time. Obviously, no one is going to be personally identified, even in a private email. My best idea so far is a general class announcement via the LMS that it's been brought to my attention that we may have a problem and for everyone to please double check their hygiene before coming to class.

Have any of you all ever had to deal with this? Any suggestions?

I admit to being a little bummed out. It was relatively good work. While I strongly believe that students retain copyright to their own work and can post it wherever they want, I'm still sad.

It's worth noting that I'd never heard of this particular cheating site before today. One more to the list, I guess.

Writing those bullshit memos admin makes you write when you want to get around some stupid university policy. I've used it twice and it's great. The recipients could care less about the details or accuracy of the memo, they just want the piece of paper.

A Texas A&M University professor was suspended, investigated and ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing for allegedly criticizing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during a lecture about the opioid crisis. The probe has free speech advocates concerned about political influence over academia in Texas.

We've received word that we're migrating from the older version of Blackboard to the new, "student approved", Blackboard Ultra.

We'll be migrating our courses by hand over the summer; how bad is this going to be?

I'm considering appealing an annual eval (we got merit raises this year so it matters a bit). I have grounds and even a title ix case to back up my request, but I'm unclear if these things ever change. Thoughts?

I'm curious -- those of you (like me) who have withdrawn from extra work outside of your defined workload (e.g. no extra service or teaching), have you just shut up about it, or have any of you loudly drawn attention to it? How did it go?

I'm in a situation where I've been volunteer teaching a course for years, but I've learned the department doesn't care (even if the university does) so I don't plan to continue doing it -- I'm curious if I should let my chair know the reasons I'm not doing it anymore, or just shut up and recover some free time, and contribute to a general "decline" of offerings to the university.

As an FYI I'm a tenured assoc. prof at an R1, so my time is largely my own without consequences -- I was enjoying helping the students and university out with this course until my department decided to be shitty about teaching.

I received an email from a textbook salesman. This isn't a rarity, but today this line lept out at me:

"Ideal for students learning concepts and reasonably priced at $144.95,"

No. Just no. $144.95 is not reasonably priced. This is the first of what is likely a lot of emails that I get to respond with the line in the sand that I've drawn:

"Reasonably priced" at $144.95?

No thank you. I won't subject my students to materials, including books, equipment, and any online tool licensing, that cost more than $60 per course. Until your offerings are in this range, please do not contact me again.

Even my $60 per course number is high as far as I'm concerned.

How do you solo parents go to conferences with school-age kids? It seems essentially impossible unless the conference is over the summer.

New cohort. New edition of the books. Students stared into space last week during orientation and I've received over two dozen emails and calls about zeros on late work.

It's too early this summer to hold hands...

I decided that since I hadn't found any other communities in the Lemmy community browser, I would just make one for us.

Feel free to introduce yourself!