What do I need to emphasize to students about SWoRD?
NO Late Assignments will be accepted (past the grace period). Students should be PUNCTUAL to the SECOND. SWoRD is time-sensitive. It means that students cannot submit assignments even one second after each deadline. Because of this critical feature of the system, we highly recommend a day grace period and emphasizing to students that the grace period is there to deal with unexpected mishaps on their part. Technical failure on the student end is NOT accepted for their late submission. NO final drafts without a first draft. Students who miss the first drafts CANNOT submit final drafts. Thus, they lose all writing points. Latecomers can only choose topics that are left (if students are asked to choose a subset among multiple possible writing topics). When students choose topics for writing and reviewing, some students who choose late could have fewer choices regulated by SWoRD. SWoRD tries to assign similar number of students across topics and so regulates choices with those latecomers. N
