The way I responded to this situation would depend on how clear I thought I'd been in stipulating what needed to be included in the assignment, whether the weather had been bad prompting low attendance, and whether over the course of the term my students had shown that if they understood the assignments, they would fulfill the requirements.
In most any case I would probably tell the students that their assignments would be considered late until they provided me with the missing components. And I would go ahead and deduct the 10 pts per late day until their packet was complete (and let them know I would do this). To not do this would be to allow them to miss out on the learning involved in completing all parts of the assignment and to encourage them to think following directions unimportant and to take advantage of me in future assignments.
However, if a lot of people had missed because of weather or if I felt the assignment were unclear or had only included the instructions in the syllabus and had not reminded the class of the stipulations before the essays were due, I would probably tell them they needed to have their packets completed by the next class period or I would start deducting late points until it was.
In the end, my decision would probably depend on the "character" of the given class and the attitudes of the people in it.
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How do you feel now, knowing that it was our class?
I still feel that the assignment sheet could have been clearer. I'm usually a stickler for paying attention to assignment sheets and professor instructions, as I figure most Graduate Students are as well, so I'm perplexed by how all this happened.
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