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Their new trick is online assignments with automatic grading. The access code for the assignment system will be something like $230 alone, or $250 bundled with
by pseudo0 3y ago
Their new trick is online assignments with automatic grading. The access code for the assignment system will be something like $230 alone, or $250 bundled with the textbook. Departments save a few bucks on grading and pass on the costs to the students. It's a pretty gross business model.
- anakaine 3y agoDepartments need to be helped to account by the student body. If your pricing is correct, and we are talking about a major 1st year class with 250 people, that's $57,500 for the privilege of issuing and marking assignments per session. For it to be saleable to departments I bet most assignments are already in the system and you just check off which one to issue. It's academic laziness at the expense of the students. The uni makes more money by saving on the cost of tutors to mark assignments in those bulk classes whilst the students are charged more. Its a gross financial abrogation of responsibility for the welfare of their students.
- pynappo 3y ago> For it to be saleable to departments I bet most assignments are already in the system and you just check off which one to issue. Yeah, think of Khan Academy but paid. The pricing I've seen so far in my classes (1 math textbook, 1 history textbook) is 100ish per semester for each textbook's accompanying service, 180ish for a yearly pass (eg. if you take 2+ math classes in consecutive semesters).