Whoop-de-doo ... 2 weeks until teaching starts and we finally get our teaching schedules (i.e. find out what new material we'll be teaching this term!) No criticism intended of the beleaguered chap in charge of timetabling (exacerbated this year by losing one good lecturer and gaining 2 unknowns), I'd have to lay that one at the door of "admin" (my hobby horse, obv.) Quicker processing of student numbers & streamlined timetabling would all help! (Oh please³ don't ever give me the timetabling job!)

My "Web Technologies" class last year had ~120 students. This year it's (LOL - estimated!) to be more than 200. Ho-hum. Last year one or more pieces of weekly work from ~50% of the class had, shall we say, suspicious similarities? This year I need to redesign the exercises to (a) make it easier to assess (2 weeks solid marking with 120 scales up to 3 weeks this year if I'm not careful! Helluva way to spend Christmas ;-}  ) and (b) help the darlin's avoid the temptation of working too closely together <grin>