The department confirmed that all coursework submissions will be audited and the final grades for the course will be recalculated. We have secured a formal review for every student affected by the grading discrepancies. Please monitor your official university email for instructions on how to access your updated records.
August 24, 2016
Final supporters
This mandatory course is irrelevant to a Marketing Major because it is all about computer science. And unlike Computer Applications it isn't even taught in a computer lab so students can have first hand experience with teacher supervision.
Throughout the semester we have done about 6 assignments. Each assignment relied on the work from the one before. Therefore if you do badly on one you're likely to do badly on all. As such you would expect for the lecturer to give us our course work grades promptly after submission.
However that was not the case, she did not mark and return our assignments during the semester. When we asked about them or complained she would say she's too busy, she has a lot to do and that we should read the notes and trust that what we did was right. When students went to the office to complain about her response they were told that nothing could be done.
On the morning of our final exam she released some of our grades. She hasn't returned the documents with the breakdown as to how much we got for each section. Then OURvle has been reset before she uploaded any more of our coursework grades.
Now, this week we check SAS to see our final grade and it would seem that 80% of the class failed by 5% or less. And this is not the first time this lecturer has had this issue.
If our assignments were being returned we would have had a better chance of at least passing!
Re-Mark and Go-Through Requests aren't open until June 20th, so what are we to do? Pay $26,000 for summer school until we get through and it is discovered that we actually passed?
This petition is just for students who did the course in Semester 2 of this year. Please share it with your classmates so we can have this resolved sooner than later.
Updates
June 2, 2016
I have finalized the formal letter documenting the grading inconsistencies and the failure to provide feedback throughout the semester. This document is currently under review for delivery to the Department Head. I am also currently compiling student testimonials to demonstrate the systemic nature of this issue.
26 Comments
Even though i passed this course by 1%, I failed this course by 4% last year and was suppose to do an oral exam because i was a finalising student and she gave me a written exam for an oral exam. I agree a 100% with this petition.
I was unpleased because I do not know, if what I did on the mid semester was correct. Little effort was made to go through a full analysis of what was need practically, given that the course was taught by theory.
Dr . Donalds is not a willing teacher, she has very low communication skills. She does not mark the assignments on time , doesn't return the grades and does not.provide any feedback. She doesn't allow you to be able to communicate with her and query anything regarding the course and she always show an attitude that says she doesn't care if we fail or not. Something needs to be done about her now. Its time
I failed by 4 marks and this is my final year . With reference to the individual assignment she said I got 3 out of 10 i submitted a 20 page work and a followed the example that was posted on her slides . I am extremely upset. Before the class started I wrote several emails about the high failure rate and nothing was done by the school. I hope students are sending this petition to the correct authorities at school.
The course should not be mandatory for Marketing Majors. The course can be relevant and is more suited for say students studying Operations Management. For a course that is so heavily computer based, we have ZERO classes around and interacting with an actual computer. The university administration should look into the relevance of this course to Marketing Majors.
Check your grade now.
The 17th has passed and the initial remark is going to be opened on Monday which will take 6 weeks for the results to come out was this petition a waste of time? Is our case going to be handled separately and the results will come out sooner before summer school ends? That's the only way this would have made sense. It was expected that uwi would take this long in order to screw us over. Kmt
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The department confirmed that all coursework submissions will be audited and the final grades for the course will be recalculated. We have secured a formal review for every student affected by the grading discrepancies. Please monitor your official university email for instructions on how to access your updated records.
August 24, 2016
Final supporters
This mandatory course is irrelevant to a Marketing Major because it is all about computer science. And unlike Computer Applications it isn't even taught in a computer lab so students can have first hand experience with teacher supervision.
Throughout the semester we have done about 6 assignments. Each assignment relied on the work from the one before. Therefore if you do badly on one you're likely to do badly on all. As such you would expect for the lecturer to give us our course work grades promptly after submission.
However that was not the case, she did not mark and return our assignments during the semester. When we asked about them or complained she would say she's too busy, she has a lot to do and that we should read the notes and trust that what we did was right. When students went to the office to complain about her response they were told that nothing could be done.
On the morning of our final exam she released some of our grades. She hasn't returned the documents with the breakdown as to how much we got for each section. Then OURvle has been reset before she uploaded any more of our coursework grades.
Now, this week we check SAS to see our final grade and it would seem that 80% of the class failed by 5% or less. And this is not the first time this lecturer has had this issue.
If our assignments were being returned we would have had a better chance of at least passing!
Re-Mark and Go-Through Requests aren't open until June 20th, so what are we to do? Pay $26,000 for summer school until we get through and it is discovered that we actually passed?
This petition is just for students who did the course in Semester 2 of this year. Please share it with your classmates so we can have this resolved sooner than later.
Updates
June 2, 2016
I have finalized the formal letter documenting the grading inconsistencies and the failure to provide feedback throughout the semester. This document is currently under review for delivery to the Department Head. I am also currently compiling student testimonials to demonstrate the systemic nature of this issue.
26 Comments
I had a F1 failing grade (45) and only 2 percent was added. So I have still fallen short so its not everyone passing. They definitely should have remarked the course work. That is where the most issues were. Imagine I waited a whole year to do the one and only course binding me to UWI and I st Ik ll failed? Twice!!
Even though i passed this course by 1%, I failed this course by 4% last year and was suppose to do an oral exam because i was a finalising student and she gave me a written exam for an oral exam. I agree a 100% with this petition.
I was unpleased because I do not know, if what I did on the mid semester was correct. Little effort was made to go through a full analysis of what was need practically, given that the course was taught by theory.
Dr . Donalds is not a willing teacher, she has very low communication skills. She does not mark the assignments on time , doesn't return the grades and does not.provide any feedback. She doesn't allow you to be able to communicate with her and query anything regarding the course and she always show an attitude that says she doesn't care if we fail or not. Something needs to be done about her now. Its time
I failed by 4 marks and this is my final year . With reference to the individual assignment she said I got 3 out of 10 i submitted a 20 page work and a followed the example that was posted on her slides . I am extremely upset. Before the class started I wrote several emails about the high failure rate and nothing was done by the school. I hope students are sending this petition to the correct authorities at school.
The course should not be mandatory for Marketing Majors. The course can be relevant and is more suited for say students studying Operations Management. For a course that is so heavily computer based, we have ZERO classes around and interacting with an actual computer. The university administration should look into the relevance of this course to Marketing Majors.
Check your grade now.
The 17th has passed and the initial remark is going to be opened on Monday which will take 6 weeks for the results to come out was this petition a waste of time? Is our case going to be handled separately and the results will come out sooner before summer school ends? That's the only way this would have made sense. It was expected that uwi would take this long in order to screw us over. Kmt
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I had a F1 failing grade (45) and only 2 percent was added. So I have still fallen short so its not everyone passing. They definitely should have remarked the course work. That is where the most issues were. Imagine I waited a whole year to do the one and only course binding me to UWI and I st Ik ll failed? Twice!!