Hello ? ........... Anybody there ? ....... Anybody ?
Practically the end of week 5 and the Tutor Group Forum may have to be pronounced clinically dead.
The signs of life that occasionally occur rarely have any relevance to the course material, and even the fairly major intervention by the tutor back in Week Two failed to kick-start any meaningful interaction with only two on-topic responses from about twenty students appearing.
So we appear to have gone through the "stand back.... charging ..... 2000 joules.... shocking now!" routine, and after limited heart beat we have again flat lined.....
To make matters worse, the results from the first TMA are conspicuous by their absence. Although this may be really unfair, as you don't know what else the tutor has going on in their life, you'd have though that there would be more interest in getting the first TMA back quickly. Especially as this was a short 800 word TMA with definitive answers and there must surely be a marking schedule and you just tick off whether a point has been covered or a calculation is correct. It doesn't bode particularly well for the longer and more complicated essays.
It is especially annoying when you hear of people getting results back within 48 hours of the deadline and even people who got extensions have had their mark back already.
So fingers crossed that the radio silence and the communication vacuum are broken soon.
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