Q. My school has a policy about allowing kids to make up quizzes if they have an excused absence, and I am not sure how to handle those with the quick quizzes. They miss 90 minutes of instruction, and I was wondering what you do with quizzes for students who are absent for legitimate reasons.
A. If the absence is excused, I simply don’t count the quiz for or against the kid. It just “didn’t happen”. We have Infinite Campus and it is easy for me to just put an x in the box where the other quiz grades are. However, the zero goes in first and remains there until the child brings me the excused absence. Once I have the official excused absence I change the zero to the x, making it a non-grade.