Resit test day

Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic... In fact today's the day that the students who failed the module not too egregiously get a 2^nd chance to pass (with their mark capped at 40%/D-) and (I hope) the CBT will be no picnic <grin> ... after-all, this one test + some Web Tech. exercises substitute for a whole module's assessment! It has to be tough to be fair to those who passed at the 1^st attempt. So the work deadline was mid-day and the test is at 2.30pm and the whingeing has started:

• I only just failed last time (got between 30 and 35%) so can you be lenient this time? [Ha! No favouritism ... if you deserve to pass, then you'll pass!]
• My computer got infected with a virus and after a few days it stopped working so I lost my work. [What? No backup after three days?!] Rather than fix the virus I've bought a new machine [!] so I can do the work now ... in fact it's nearly done, oh, but it's at home so I can't give it to you yet. Can I email it to you on Monday for no penalty?
• Can I do my test in the earlier slot rather than the one you scheduled me for as I {have a Halifax appointment, am off on holiday}? [As it turns out the Halifax guy turned-up at the correct time despite claiming Halifax could not reschedule his appointment ... was he lying?]

Update: Surprisingly the recently-upgraded Blackboard v6.1 system worked very well for my 40-strong test subjects (none of the oft-repeated problems...) so kudos to our ETU for finally getting an upgrade worthy of the name!