Moral Dilemma
TLDR; student submitted a 2 page rough draft for the final project (probably by error) and hasn't noticed. It's already graded by final draft standards and earned ~50%. Because of a weird situation, I am able to view their google doc and can see an 8 page complete draft. Do I keep my graded score or alert them and have them resubmit? Finals week already over.
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Currently a stressed out, overworked adjunct tying to get grades in by a Monday night deadline. I've come across a real moral dilemma.
One student has been a struggle all semester, coming in to class consistently 10-15 minutes late, submitting work that below par, when they submit assignments they often only submit partial work for in class and take home stuff, and (this one kills me) always keep an earbud in and head down. They were actually surprised when I made them remove the earbuds during an essay exam.
Now, for a tiny bit more background, they apparently had difficulty submitting the rough draft (alleged tech excuses, couldn't really participate in peer review) and to make things easier I ended up grabbing the draft from their google doc and uploading it myself. This way it's documented as submitted in the system and I was able to give feedback.
So here's my dilemma.
They turned in a final draft uploaded as a PDF that was very similar to the rough draft. It's terrible. No conclusion. Missing sources. Sources that are used are sometimes accurately represented, other times not (final project is a lit review so a significant portion of points in rubric is based on sourcing). No works cited page.
Out of kindness, I reach out and say send me a list of your sources so I can verify them and award you partial credit.
Student emails back "I didn't realize it didn't have a works cited page, here you go" and gives me his sources. So I do some more verification, and determine the grade (it's failing).
But something nagging me is that the list has more sources than what's in the submission.
Because I have access to the google doc, I click over to see there is a much longer essay, using all 4 sources, about 8 pages instead of 3, and with a works cited page.
This student submitted the wrong file (although I have no idea how because they weren't able to upload a rough draft file-- I had to do it for them). I feel like the fact that I alerted them the submitted version doesn't have a Works Cited page should made them realize, but it didn't. I've already graded the submitted copy. I'm done with all grading. I just want to be done with this.
But I need some other instructors to check me, because I'm worried that my own personal frustrations with this student's past behavior is coloring my decision now.
What would you do if this was your student?