Is My Paper Graded Yet?

Here's another tip for responding to students who keep asking when their papers will be graded. This teacher sets a deadline for getting papers back that she communicates to her students and then she tells them she'll give them "one extra credit point for each day the papers are late.   As she notes, "They never want me to give them back, and I have so many points in the quarter that it doesn't really do a lot for their grades."