Mon, 28 Oct 2019, 00:10 Re: Name of PL2 in canvas

A student writes:

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 10:58:49PM -0500, ******************* wrote:
> Hello Dr. Patt, my name is ********************************
> 
> I realize this is very soon to the time of the submission time of the
> programming lab, but my question is not specifically about the lab itself
> but about the technicality of how the grading works so I assumed it would
> be okay to ask.
> 
> I realized I made a mistake in my code on the lab this afternoon and
> resubmitted the assignment on canvas before the deadline, but because
> canvas keeps your old submissions, it renamed my file from "sort.asm" to
> "sort-#.asm", where # is the number of times it was resubmitted.
> 
> I looked through your emails from past years and saw that you took off
> points for "sloppiness" for putting the wrong name of the file when
> submitting. Would I still get points off, even though by the mechanics of
> how canvas works, I can't change the filename to be "sort.asm" since I
> already submitted it before?
> 
> Thank you, and again, sorry for the late email!
>
> <<name withheld to protect the student whose PL2name was changed (by magic?)>>

Since there are still three more programs to write, I decided it is worth
having all my students see my answer to him, which is the following:

First, you are worrying unnecessarily.  You did not change the name of the
program, CANVAS did in order to identify the separate versions of your program.

Second you are free to submit your program as many times as you wish up until
the deadline.  Not uncommon for a student to submit, then realize he/she made
a mistake.  In that case I want the student to correct the mistake and 
resubmit.  We grade ONLY the latest submission, regardless how many times
you submit.

Now that PL2 is done, I wish you success on the remaining three programs and
the rest of the course. 

See you in class tomorrow.


Yale Patt