Rules have changed - but the game remains the same

Please be aware that I have amended my classroom rules posted in this blog. The big change is to my policy on turning in assignments. My somewhat liberal deadline "guidelines" spawned black holes for homework. Students were not getting their assignments done in time, which made it all too easy for them to fall behind, which made it all too easy for that particular assignment to enter the vortex of the forgotten, which made it all too difficult for them to make up late work AND keep up with new work. I also shortened the window in which I will even accept an assignment for credit. Why? Because they can do better. Period.