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The “make fixes and resubmit” sounds like an approach that would teach. I would do the most thorough grading of the final reports of students that were borderline between two grades.

I was also an underpaid adjunct for an online class. A MUCH better paying consulting job came up at a community college. To survive I had the students create an outline of each chapter. For the online discussion they each had to create 3 questions, answer questions of 2 different students, and respond to all answers to their questions. It worked extremely well. There was better student involvement, they had to actually think a bit, and my involvement dropped to near zero. An instructional design colleague thought it brilliant. There first year I used hours reviewing each week’s homework.