<p>poetgrl - I agree that your system of grading is a good one, but that sounds like the way my D’s high school projects were graded. Perhaps some professors assume kids have had group projects in high school that were properly paced and supervised. That is why I mentioned in an earlier post that it would have been better had the hard lesson the OP’s D is learning now been learned in high school - how to approach a group project, divide the work, set deadlines - and most importantly, size up right away who is not going to pull his/her weight and and the proper way to intervene. If that was the role of the facilitator in this scenario and he/she dropped the ball, then that is something the professor needs to address.</p>