My "Chemistry for Scientists and Engineers" class had 600 people in it and my "Intro to Programming" had another 600 people.
I've been told that with the amount of students it wouldn't be possible to grade stuff like that by hand.
As far as the online grading goes it is mostly the early STEM classes that have the online grading. The non-STEM classes were mostly "read this and do an essay" and the tests were graded on scantrons. After you move past the courses with no pre-reqs and weed-out classes there are less people left and the professors don't really rely on the online grading as often.
>I've been told that with the amount of students it wouldn't be possible to grade stuff like that by hand./< This is a pretty lame excuse. Far greater numbers of students have a far larger volume of work to submit at schools and yet that is all marked by humans, or at least it is where I am. Some could be very easily scripted. The rest (hand writing comes to mind) cannot be assessed by human or machine.
Another possible reason is that it is much easier to let MyMathLab grade everything and then spit out a grade at the end of the semester. Though I'm the one paying $140 for a license code.
I've been told that with the amount of students it wouldn't be possible to grade stuff like that by hand.
As far as the online grading goes it is mostly the early STEM classes that have the online grading. The non-STEM classes were mostly "read this and do an essay" and the tests were graded on scantrons. After you move past the courses with no pre-reqs and weed-out classes there are less people left and the professors don't really rely on the online grading as often.