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I had an organic chemistry professor who would not return anything until the end of the semester, homework, quizzes, test, nothing. I had the impression she was a procratsinator and just didn't do the work. It was beyond frustrating. She also got her ph.d from Princeton coincidentally!

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I did this at Loyola New Orleans (an intro physics lab class) and I'll tell you why. I didn't trust the kids to not lose their work. They could come to my office and collect it and if they challenged their grade, I had all the material to hand with me. Online reports were graded on Canvas at any rate.

You made your class educationally worse and blame the students because you didn't ask for a photo of their work?

Canvas had photos of it online - you misunderstand.

> I did this

Glad to hear you didn't actually do that. Returning digitally is still returning.

One reason for not returning work immediately is it makes it harder to accept late work, because students will share the answers with each other.

The most lenient late policy I've experienced in my (ongoing) university experience has been that you can submit 1 day late for a 30% penalty. Most of my classes lock the dropbox immediately at midnight.

Simply returning work shortly after the late work window closes should suffice, no?

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