Sunday, October 14, 2018

Mourning the loss of work

There are apparently still some websites whereupon text is entered and it is not auto-saved.

I mean it makes sense when it's like FB or something where a comment is lost (I would imagine this happens... I'm a lurker and if I do comment, they are usually quite short, so I've never had this happen to me).

I was grading someone's work on Canvas (a course management site) and they've saved the comments I've made before, but for whatever reason, it did not save, and I am still processing the loss of work that this has caused.

Yes, I'm being overdramatic.

Yes, it isn't a big deal.

But yes, it is also a minor inconvenience, especially because I felt like those comments would have greatly helped the student and there was quite a bit that I said that I probably won't remember, so I am a little peeved. Just a little.

And I feel like I'm going through the five stages of grief:

Denial: Is it really missing? Where did it go? It couldn't have just disappeared...
Anger: How could I have forgotten to save it? Always save somewhere else first... Why didn't Canvas save it?! Stupid course management system... I am a fooool >:(
Negotiation: Maybe I can recreate the comments without having to read through the whole assignment again. It won't be so bad... will it?
Depression: I don't want to do this again... I'm a terrible teacher...
Acceptance: Okay, okay, I'll get back into it. Just gotta do what I gotta do.

Bah.

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