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Video done; I want good defaults

I have finished my video lectures. They consist of ten weeks of videos with 2-4 hours of videos each week, probably 30 hours in total. It took me 2 months to accomplish that and I still have the encoding and uploading to do. But at least the recording is done.

It is exhausting. An hour of recording is utterly draining. And while my students seem to be profiting from them and perhaps even enjoying them somewhat, I am always cringing at what I did. I felt that it was best to demonstrate stream of thought and process then to make it smooth, but that does introduce a certain level of pain while watching.

I am pretty sure that it is at least as good as my lecturing, but that may not be saying much.

I should be celebrating but today is grading day. And here is a gripe. The default for grades seem to be to not include in the course grade. Each time I grade an assignment, it looks like I have to go into the item and change it to be included in the course grade. This seems weird to me. So I just noticed that a few items from the past few weeks were not being included in the course grade. Yet another thing to need to pay attention to.

I want good defaults that do want you want them to do in 95% of the cases.

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