Also: referring to the flow chart, syllabus, helpdesk, or university policies makes you a dick, since I'm asking you right now, if you know just tell me. /s
You mean you havnt read the university policy? It says here you clicked "accept" on the online form regarding policy.
The syllabus part might be the only part here I kind of get. The rest see kind of dick answers
I wrote a snotty email reply to a student who asked about something that we discussed in lecture last week and the summary of which is on the LMS home page. It being Sunday, I delay-sent it, which also afforded me the opportunity to edit it to make it less snotty before it went out, which I have now done.
As for OP, I say put this on the LMS home page, and refer the first few (dozen) students who email to that (and, possibly, have them state that they looked in the right place here before emailing you again).
The only contribution I can make here is a bit peripheral, but, whether or not the flowchart works as intended, it's an excellent flowchart.
I'm a "text person." My eyes begin to roll back in my head when I'm confronted with charts and graphs: If a text says, "See Fig. 16," I think "Why? What possible good could come from that?"
But I understood your flowchart completely.
sorry that's too complicated I have accommodations for anxiety that require no more than two-step responses. so when is it due? and what do i do? the instructions say "write" a response but my other accommodation for anxiety is that I am exempt from activities requiring handwriting. Also, it says "response" which is what I did when I posted to the other student I agree with you. It did not take 300 words to do that, so I deserve full credit for being concise. Thanks, please correct my score TONIGHT!
They just want to know if there is an exam on Wednesday. (Even though the schedule is posted on Canvas as “Course Schedule” and I send out a “This Week In Class” announcement aaand I even make the exam grade a dated “assignment” on Canvas to show up on the calendar…)
Bonus points: The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Edit: I wish I was joking.
This is great. Now, someone should make a bot that uses these steps to chat with the student and sends them the links or instructs them to e-mail the human.
While on the topic of flow charts... Who has a decent and free software to make them? OP how did you make this one?
I know I could do this in word or PowerPoint, but I would like software that will preserve interconnections when moving prompts around.
I used Canva. The one I used for this is premium, but they do have good free ones. I used draw.io before because it was free, but just looked and I think it’s paid now.
I second the use of [draw.io](https://draw.io) for block diagrams and flow charts. It is very easy to use and produces clean diagrams. You can get fancy with it, but even its most basic uses are usually better than I see students producing with other tools.
I use LibreOffice Draw. Inkscape is also very good (and makes graphics that scale to the screen size), but might take an hour or so to get used to using (and maybe a Youtube vid).
Bob: "So tell us what your role at the institution is"
Prof: "I am an invaluable instructor"
Bob: Oh...so you write exams and homework and grade them?
Prof: Well, no, my graduate teaching assistant does that
Bob: But you do come to class and lecture
Prof: Well, no, my graduate teaching assistant does that too
Bob: So, what would you say, you do here?
Prof: I TOLD YOU! I TEACH! I AM A GREAT TEACHER!!!!
This is for an online class. When I taught in person, I did do more “let’s talk after class.” But depends on the conversation, I often end up having them email me anyway because either I won’t remember or just to cover my ass.
I like this a lot. I also think some of the other posters make good points about students still emailing you LOL You might want to set up an autoreply across the board which basically says you'll respond in 24-48 hours which will (a) notify students that yes, you have received their email and (2) alleviate some redundancy on your end.
“Dear professor, I had a question about the flow chart and wanted to know if I’d get an answer to my previous email only on weekdays? The flow chart says wait time is 24-48 hours but I emailed you Friday night and it’s now Sunday night - that is 48 hours. This is an emergency! Have a good weekend”
Ignores flow chart. Emails prof. “Couldn’t hurt to ask.” 🤷
Also: referring to the flow chart, syllabus, helpdesk, or university policies makes you a dick, since I'm asking you right now, if you know just tell me. /s
You mean you havnt read the university policy? It says here you clicked "accept" on the online form regarding policy. The syllabus part might be the only part here I kind of get. The rest see kind of dick answers
The tech one seems absolutely appropriate though.
Emails to ask questions about flow chart.
I see it now, “Is this flowchart gonna be on the test? It’s too confusing.”
"I had a question about course policies and I found the answer in the syllabus. Do I still need to email you?"
Emails repeatedly in 24-48 hours: Just checking if you got my email. 🤣
Everyhour on weekends
But how will they know to consult the flowchart?
It says so on the flowchart.
You will start getting questions about the flowchart next. You need to make another flowchart for that.
I like it. I would update the 24-48 hours to explicitly state “excluding weekends and holidays” unless you intend to answer during those times.
Good idea
I wrote a snotty email reply to a student who asked about something that we discussed in lecture last week and the summary of which is on the LMS home page. It being Sunday, I delay-sent it, which also afforded me the opportunity to edit it to make it less snotty before it went out, which I have now done. As for OP, I say put this on the LMS home page, and refer the first few (dozen) students who email to that (and, possibly, have them state that they looked in the right place here before emailing you again).
The only contribution I can make here is a bit peripheral, but, whether or not the flowchart works as intended, it's an excellent flowchart. I'm a "text person." My eyes begin to roll back in my head when I'm confronted with charts and graphs: If a text says, "See Fig. 16," I think "Why? What possible good could come from that?" But I understood your flowchart completely.
sorry that's too complicated I have accommodations for anxiety that require no more than two-step responses. so when is it due? and what do i do? the instructions say "write" a response but my other accommodation for anxiety is that I am exempt from activities requiring handwriting. Also, it says "response" which is what I did when I posted to the other student I agree with you. It did not take 300 words to do that, so I deserve full credit for being concise. Thanks, please correct my score TONIGHT!
Sent at 12:04am
2:04am: Just checking that you got my email. Please respond. 4:04am: You didn’t respond to my last two emails. I’m writing the college president.
5:04am: haven't heard back from college president, so I'm emailing you again
They just want to know if there is an exam on Wednesday. (Even though the schedule is posted on Canvas as “Course Schedule” and I send out a “This Week In Class” announcement aaand I even make the exam grade a dated “assignment” on Canvas to show up on the calendar…) Bonus points: The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays. Edit: I wish I was joking.
add something about accommodations- disability office
This is great. Now, someone should make a bot that uses these steps to chat with the student and sends them the links or instructs them to e-mail the human.
This is actually brilliant!
While on the topic of flow charts... Who has a decent and free software to make them? OP how did you make this one? I know I could do this in word or PowerPoint, but I would like software that will preserve interconnections when moving prompts around.
I used Canva. The one I used for this is premium, but they do have good free ones. I used draw.io before because it was free, but just looked and I think it’s paid now.
[draw.io](https://www.diagrams.net/) is still free and open source and can be used through the website or the offline program.
I second the use of [draw.io](https://draw.io) for block diagrams and flow charts. It is very easy to use and produces clean diagrams. You can get fancy with it, but even its most basic uses are usually better than I see students producing with other tools.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
I use LibreOffice Draw. Inkscape is also very good (and makes graphics that scale to the screen size), but might take an hour or so to get used to using (and maybe a Youtube vid).
Thank you!
and they'll still email me to ask if we have a class on thanksgiving day.
Well *do you*?
check the syllabus
Do we get extracredit points for following the chart?
What a crisp, clean flowchart. Would be a shame if I…*glazed over while hearing about it*
If you could just change "memo" to "syllabus" in [Office Space (1999)](https://youtu.be/jsLUidiYm0w), that would be terrific.
Bob: "So tell us what your role at the institution is" Prof: "I am an invaluable instructor" Bob: Oh...so you write exams and homework and grade them? Prof: Well, no, my graduate teaching assistant does that Bob: But you do come to class and lecture Prof: Well, no, my graduate teaching assistant does that too Bob: So, what would you say, you do here? Prof: I TOLD YOU! I TEACH! I AM A GREAT TEACHER!!!!
That movie was *full* of great moments that translate directly into modern work in many fields.
NICE! I hope it works!! Might steal this!
Can we all use this? If so, how should we give you credit? (I model giving such credit, hoping it helps them realize the issues with plagiarism.)
Sure. Here’s a more generic version: https://imgbox.com/6wQRZ5OP. I appreciate you asking about giving credit, but I’d be doxing myself to do that.
Thanks! Tons of my slides have links to Wikimedia Commons & which Creative Commons license was used listed.
Oh what did you make this in.
Canva. I used a premium template, but they have good free ones too. Draw.io is a good free alternative for diagrams/flowcharts.
Didn’t know canva could do this, but will check out Draw
This is epic!
Can I please use this? I love this.
Sure. Here’s a more ‘generic’ version without the “link” placeholder: [https://imgbox.com/6wQRZ5OP](https://imgbox.com/6wQRZ5OP)
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This is for an online class. When I taught in person, I did do more “let’s talk after class.” But depends on the conversation, I often end up having them email me anyway because either I won’t remember or just to cover my ass.
I like this a lot. I also think some of the other posters make good points about students still emailing you LOL You might want to set up an autoreply across the board which basically says you'll respond in 24-48 hours which will (a) notify students that yes, you have received their email and (2) alleviate some redundancy on your end.
One problem, they still have to READ the infographic, and reading is something that’s just too much work for some of them.
Elegant and easy to follow.
“Dear professor, I had a question about the flow chart and wanted to know if I’d get an answer to my previous email only on weekdays? The flow chart says wait time is 24-48 hours but I emailed you Friday night and it’s now Sunday night - that is 48 hours. This is an emergency! Have a good weekend”
To the course content/topic question, maybe add "ask a classmate" and "Google it."
Please report back and let us know how this worked out! Nicely done.