Question for those parents with a Texas A&M student (or perhaps other state colleges are the same)? The college allows students to take distance education courses for which they pay tuition plus a $600 online proctoring fee but the online proctors don’t follow the rules as set in class. Starting exams late, etc. so the students who take the exam online (versus those in the classroom) appear to have no recourse. Also, some of the professors say that due to HEPA they no longer need to tell the students what they missed in detail. So this means that on homework assignments and exams, the students only find out a score but not what they missed or why. They can go in to office hours to see details but if you are a distance education student, you can’t. I recommended to our daughter that she NEVER take another distance education course from Texas A&M due to these issues because the students are unfairly disadvantaged compared to the students in class and the courses for engineers are often on a curve. Distance students I guess are the ones who end up with the lower grades. If they can online proctor using Skype, why can’t the professors show them their results online after verifying their identity? Texas A&M college of engineering has some really weak teachers/professors so if you couple that with distance education, it’s not a good combination. Just wondered if other students are running into the privacy of information act and professors unwilling to show graded work back to the student after they submit it?
If the professor says No, you complain to the head of the department, then to the Dean of the college. Just keep working upwards.