Did you know when her office hours were? Did you ask the department secretary (or some profs have websites) to find out? I would still try to see her, and print out the emails as proof that you have been trying to contact her.
Yes I’ve been to her office and had meetings with her before. Each semester she changes her hours and only sees people with appointments. But it’s impossible to make an appointment with her since she never responds to my emails, and there’s nothing i can do about it now.
I find it concerning that you were so passive about this (a couple emails and one attempt at meeting her). She should have been more on top of things, of course, but you could have been more persistant, too.
For future reference, don’t be be this passive about important things. If something urgent like this happens again, email the prof every few days. Talk to the secretary (people asked if you did this and you didn’t answer them, so I’m assuming you didn’t do this). Email other professors in the department and ask how to get a hold of the prof. Leave a physical note under the office door. Wait by his or her office door if you have to.
This is a sad situation, but I hope that you can learn something from it and can be more assertive in the future.
Best wishes.
Can’t the prof still file a change of grade? At the CC where I worked years ago, faculty frequently changed grades even after an “I” changed automatically to an “F”.
At my cc the professor only has 4 weeks until the semester ends to give a final grade before its changed automatically. I am not sure if they are able to change it after that. I have an appointment with my adviser next week and she will suggest on what to do.
Since the assignments were online, the professor could reasonably have expected that you (a) print them out so you had a record and (b) actually do them. You wouldn’t have needed an appointment to drop off assignments. Since you didn’t, I don’t know what the professor can do for you now.
I doubt that she could have expected me to print them out… The assignments had 40 questions on them and there was about 15 assignments. You do them online and that is how it is graded. After a few weeks, she stopped grading my work, answering my emails, wasn’t never at her office when I dropped by. She even gave me her cell phone number in the beginning of the semester and that still didn’t work as far as trying to contact her. 8-|
Look up “grade grievance” in your student handbook and prepare all your evidence that you tried in good faith to complete the coursework and how tech systems might have gotten in the way.
GO TO THE DEAN OF STUDENTS RIGHT NOW AND TALK TO THEM.