In my online class, I assign due dates and keep reminding the students that my class is not a self-paced class!One student has asked: "why do u have this rule?"
I replied with "to ensure you and your classmates success in learning. If you study over a period of time the material will stay with you longer than if you crammed it all in one night. Finally it helps me to have everyone on the same general page. "
There is one more reason, which I did not share with this student. The secret reason is to make it too expensive for anyone to cheat by paying someone to do their online homework. A student can afford to pay someone to take an online exam for them, but having to login and complete weekly quizzes is going to be very expensive. Also the weekly assignments and quizzes are useful in making cheaters stand out. If a students weekly assignments and quizzes are consistently horrible and their midterm is outstanding something is rotten in .... (wherever they be logging in from)
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