Opinion from a professor

Okay so I took an online class over spring semester. Should have been an easy A for gap boosting. By the end of the semester I looked to be getting an A in the class because it said 495/520 in the class. Then when I went to check my transcript for my co-op it said I got a B. Didn’t know why though it was a mistake putting it in. Then I email and she said the class was out of 600 points. Curious to why I did so bad I looked and I didn’t have a grade for my final group project. Which even on the project it had my name. So I asked her and she said since I didn’t do the peer review after which other didn’t do like a girl in my group and a group member said I didn’t do anything or talk to them till the 14th when it was due so she said the grade stands. The problem is yes I did wait to talk to them till the 14th because I didn’t hear anything and did the project myself since it is an easy class, then to be nice I emailed my group saying “hey if you guys wanna split up the work it be cool” thinking they would want to participate. Then they replied with that they had already did the project and didn’t know I was in the groups because originally I wasn’t. My professor didn’t put me in a group at the start of the project so they didn’t know I was in it when they contacted each other. So me with my version of the project done and them with theirs I emailed them my paper and said submit both on the discussion board. Then the girl commented saying my was better but didn’t want to feel like she didn’t do anything so she said she would mix them. So she ended up adding my last part to their last part and submitted it. I have emails of this whole conversation happening showing I did the work. I sent all the pics of the emails and my actual paper I wrote and said my last part of my paper is on the project to my professor but she isn’t replying to me. I’m asking a professor on here what to do cause I feel wronged for recieveing no credit for it.help please.

follow the directions next time.
If you were expected to reach out to others and you didnt, its your fault.
college professors have little sympathy for those who dont bother to follow directions and then come up with excuses…
Its college- not HS .

Okay it is college which I feel like the work should be more important than the group communication

Nope. Group communication is one of the most important skills you will need in the workplace, despite your profession. The professor could argue you didn’t follow the rules by doing all the work instead of being collaborative. Good news is it’s just a B, not a C, so less painful lesson than it could have been.

I’m not a professor, I’m a high school teacher. But here are my reactions:

  1. How is it possible that they all knew they were grouped together, but you didn't? How did you miss that vital piece of information?
  2. You invited the members of your group to use your input on the day it was due split up the work-- "to be nice"?? Did you think they were sitting around, waiting for someone to swoop in and save them? They're college students too-- you had to assume that they, too, cared about their grades enough to do the work they were assigned.
  3. Did you actually tell your professor that you "did the project myself since it is an easy class"???? How incredibly insulting to a professor.
  4. When you say "Okay it is college which I feel like the work should be more important than the group communication"-- here's the thing: it's not your opinion that matters. You're not the one teaching the class. It looks to me as though the prof had a well outlined rubric, well defined point structure, and an assignment that 3 out of 4 people in your group understood. You dropped the ball here, not your prof and not the other members of your group.

I say you take the B and consider it a learning experience.

A good reason to hate group project and a good object lesson in the importance of group projects. As far as school goes, I would hate them but they can be representative of the real world and the problems in groups. Part of the lesson is the content which you perceived to be easy. The other part of the lesson is group dynamics and communication. The latter messed with your grade - I am sure that the next time you are on a group project you will take more initiative to be involved and communicate with all the group members and the instructor.

As an aside, if your were really grade-concious you would have known precisely how many points were involved on the final project and how they were doled out and this would likely have been discussed in the group.

Based on what you wrote I would say that the grade awarded was appropriate.

Lucky you got a B and not lower. In the real world, you have responsibility to reach out and communicate with others you are working with. Today’s working world is not a solo environment.

I think I agree with your professor. The group project is supposed to teach you how to work in team. So, I agree with others on this thread that next time you need to follow instructions.

Be grateful you got the B. Often when you don’t do a final, you can fail the whole class.