Bare-faced cheek

Today was final assessment day for this year's Web Technologies module: A Questionmark Perception test and short JavaScript assignment. Sadly the start to the test malfunctioned and I was forced to remove the Blackboard setting that restricted students to one attempt at the test. Happily Perception gives easy access to all attempts by every student (something Blackboard does not, easily anyway); unhappily, in hindsight, I should have restricted them to a few attempts rather than unlimited...

Amusingly, one student assumed I wouldn't check and he used this lapse to attempt the assessment over-and-over until his time ran out, utilising the fact that the assessment showed the marks to gain an unfair advantage. Happily I did check and so we'll be enacting the relevant part of the "Cheating in Assessment" regulations on his behalf. What a waste of time!!

And the bare faced cheek? He had the chutzpah to complain at the end of the test (before I'd discovered his perfidy) that he'd arrived late & unfairly lost time. This fell on my unsympathetic ears -- no good excuse => no extra time. Tough monkeys! But cheeky, nonetheless...