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Jerome Fredericks
Message Platform
I often receive messages from students (not my students) via the messaging platform to answer questions and other general help with English homework or problems etc.
Sometimes I help them if it is easy and convenient to do. Sometimes it is just not possible and I refer them to the forums.
I'm just curious as to what other teachers and students think of this practice.
@teachers, is this something that happens to you and how do you deal with it?
@students, is this something that you do and do you think it is acceptable to do something like that?
Mar 18, 2020 8:24 AM
Comments · 4
Since it was asked here - I imagine there's a better chance of somebody responding if the notebook or question title is engaging. Or if the content is more interesting in some other way. It's basically competing for people's attention.
I don't expect people to answer my own questions here if I don't put effort into it myself first. A lot of questions have the title "is this correct?" or some equally vague variation, which I imagine just encourages people to keep scrolling. I'd look at whose entries often enough get corrections or feedback. It's not for no reason. But I'm sure some good posts get bumped off the front page and lost.
If somebody has a question about a sentence and doesn't understand something, then it'd help if they maybe explained how much of it they already understand, or think they understand. Or whether they need a huge in-depth explanation of the whole thing.
Also, when people post long notebook entries in the form of a "question" on this site, then that's another thing to just easily skip. At least it's much more effort than it can be worth that way, since you don't have any proper markup tools.
Anyway, those are just my impressions of why it might be hard to find volunteer help sometimes.
March 18, 2020
I have posted a question and a notebook message that is unattended for two days. What should i do other than dropping it in someone's inbox (paid evaluation here is out of question)
March 18, 2020
They can not expect to reply their every single question that in your personal message box!. Over and above, if the community don't check and feedback notebooks and questions, it is sad
March 18, 2020
Never came my way.
As a student, I probably won't do that. Asking a teacher is not a p2p forum.
March 18, 2020
Jerome Fredericks
Language Skills
Afrikaans, English, German, Spanish, Xhosa
Learning Language
German, Spanish, Xhosa
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