Appeal not upheld

Last month I mentioned that a student had appealed against their grade in three of our assignments. And I said I would keep this blog posted on how that would turn out. And the results are in: the appeal was not upheld. The student has accepted our responses, and that is that. So now nothing happens, which doesn't sound spectacular, but which does mean that nothing bad happens. I think that a storm surge of unpleasantness would have come down on us if these appeals would have been upheld. Because that would mean that there was something fundamentally wrong with either our assignments, or our treatment of this particular student, or both. Imagine! So that has been averted. And we all can go back to normal…