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Oh, yeah, I totally understand that! I personally haven't done many (if any) of the more in-depth homeworks in a long time.Vladislav Liam Gunther wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:32I know there are people that like the RP homeworks, I personally hate them and will procrastinate on those homeworks if I even decide to do them at all and do the other homeworks before those ones even if it's a spell I need.Taros Quintero wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:17This is correct!Rosalyn Willows wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 14:39 I could be wrong so bear with me, but it mean that IC your character is really good at the subject, but OOC, you just write in the homework that you're a Prodigal --- Learner and you automatically get an O!
Something similar is actually being considered by some professorsMaximilianus Kenneally Vidler wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:03 I personally really like the rp hw. Bug I get that it isn’t everyones cup of tea. Perhaps a good solution could be to make it an «either or» thing? Either you answer questions (like most classes is set up) or you write an rp of a certain length? But I understand that rewriting assignments can be a much bigger task than I am able to see!I definitely can't make any promises that it will happen or what the timeline on that might be, but I know there are some people who are thinking about it, or at least in the form of having RP questions as bonuses.
I definitely do not mean for my message to come across in a rude tone because that's not the intention! But I am trying to say it's not necessarily uh.. favored (to me in this case, but I'm sure there are others) when one is trying to get spells across accounts without having to put in too much effort. If that comes across any better?
I think this is what Maximilianus was saying!Rigel McCoire wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:38 Current thinking is that it might be a good time to rebalance. A lot of people have expressed the wish for more writing in HWs. This is a good thing! Hio is a creative writing site after all, and we love to motivate people's creativity! As time goes on, I think you'll see a return of longer form HW. My own thoughts are to offer an either / or. You can either answer these 10 standard questions or you can write this long RP.
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I like that idea, Professor! I think that the option would be great, as long as they were balanced(so it wouldn't be a ton of questions or a short writing, or vice-versa)!
Edit-just a question because I'm curious, would I be able to, say once I'm a second year, come back and do homework from first year to earn spells/potions, or would it become off-limits?
Edit-just a question because I'm curious, would I be able to, say once I'm a second year, come back and do homework from first year to earn spells/potions, or would it become off-limits?
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You create an assignment with that word count, and I’ll gladly obligeRigel McCoire wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:38Note to Self: Max needs to write 5000 words for each assignment...Maximilianus Kenneally Vidler wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:03 I personally really like the rp hw. Bug I get that it isn’t everyones cup of tea. Perhaps a good solution could be to make it an «either or» thing? Either you answer questions (like most classes is set up) or you write an rp of a certain length? But I understand that rewriting assignments can be a much bigger task than I am able to see!(And Vlad needs 10000 per!
Taros is right that this is being considered! Just for all of you who are quite new, homework used to be the only way to earn spells, and the long answer format was common. A lot of players did their HW for maybe a year and a half before giving up. This was offset by the practice of granting all the spells for a given year upon graduation.
The system was cumbersome and essentially made every character identical in their spell inventory. It was decided to change the system so that people would actually consider what spells their character would favour and make that a part of their character's development. In order to make the transition easier, HW was made almost trivially easy by most professors. The alternative of buying spells in the shops was also introduced as a way of making it simpler for players who aren't interested in doing OOC HW.
Current thinking is that it might be a good time to rebalance. A lot of people have expressed the wish for more writing in HWs. This is a good thing! Hio is a creative writing site after all, and we love to motivate people's creativity! As time goes on, I think you'll see a return of longer form HW. My own thoughts are to offer an either / or. You can either answer these 10 standard questions or you can write this long RP.
There are also other possibilities under discussion, which may or may not come to be.
Though it will probably kill off Vlad xD
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Pfft. That's cos you're old Quintero!Taros Quintero wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:40 I personally haven't done many (if any) of the more in-depth homeworks in a long time.
Yep!I think this is what Maximilianus was saying!Rigel McCoire wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:38 Current thinking is that it might be a good time to rebalance. A lot of people have expressed the wish for more writing in HWs. This is a good thing! Hio is a creative writing site after all, and we love to motivate people's creativity! As time goes on, I think you'll see a return of longer form HW. My own thoughts are to offer an either / or. You can either answer these 10 standard questions or you can write this long RP.
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I love the short answer questions in homeworks, and it does make marking easier. But the occasional 200-400 RP answer would be good also! 
Also hi Professor Taros! thanks so much for your speedy marking
Also hi Professor Taros! thanks so much for your speedy marking
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Like I said I'm almost always busy with irl stuff so I'd love the option to do a question answering instead of spending far too much time on a thing that I'll forget to submit because I can normally in my brakes answer a quiz
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Yeahhh that assignment will probably be ditched or ill probably get prodigal ;-;Maximilianus Kenneally Vidler wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:43You create an assignment with that word count, and I’ll gladly obligeRigel McCoire wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:38Note to Self: Max needs to write 5000 words for each assignment...Maximilianus Kenneally Vidler wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:03 I personally really like the rp hw. Bug I get that it isn’t everyones cup of tea. Perhaps a good solution could be to make it an «either or» thing? Either you answer questions (like most classes is set up) or you write an rp of a certain length? But I understand that rewriting assignments can be a much bigger task than I am able to see!
Taros is right that this is being considered! Just for all of you who are quite new, homework used to be the only way to earn spells, and the long answer format was common. A lot of players did their HW for maybe a year and a half before giving up. This was offset by the practice of granting all the spells for a given year upon graduation.
The system was cumbersome and essentially made every character identical in their spell inventory. It was decided to change the system so that people would actually consider what spells their character would favour and make that a part of their character's development. In order to make the transition easier, HW was made almost trivially easy by most professors. The alternative of buying spells in the shops was also introduced as a way of making it simpler for players who aren't interested in doing OOC HW.
Current thinking is that it might be a good time to rebalance. A lot of people have expressed the wish for more writing in HWs. This is a good thing! Hio is a creative writing site after all, and we love to motivate people's creativity! As time goes on, I think you'll see a return of longer form HW. My own thoughts are to offer an either / or. You can either answer these 10 standard questions or you can write this long RP.
There are also other possibilities under discussion, which may or may not come to be.
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Is it wrong that I would gladly do your assignment too?Vladislav Liam Gunther wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:47Yeahhh that assignment will probably be ditched or ill probably get prodigal ;-;Maximilianus Kenneally Vidler wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:43You create an assignment with that word count, and I’ll gladly obligeRigel McCoire wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:38Note to Self: Max needs to write 5000 words for each assignment...Maximilianus Kenneally Vidler wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:03 I personally really like the rp hw. Bug I get that it isn’t everyones cup of tea. Perhaps a good solution could be to make it an «either or» thing? Either you answer questions (like most classes is set up) or you write an rp of a certain length? But I understand that rewriting assignments can be a much bigger task than I am able to see!
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no, feel free to >D
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Yes, you can absolutely do that! You just won't earn house points for it.Rosalyn Willows wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:42 I like that idea, Professor! I think that the option would be great, as long as they were balanced(so it wouldn't be a ton of questions or a short writing, or vice-versa)!
Edit-just a question because I'm curious, would I be able to, say once I'm a second year, come back and do homework from first year to earn spells/potions, or would it become off-limits?
I guess soRigel McCoire wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:44Pfft. That's cos you're old Quintero!Taros Quintero wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:40 I personally haven't done many (if any) of the more in-depth homeworks in a long time.
Like Lotus (and Clark?), I'm busy and don't often have the energy to do the longer ones.Hello! And no problem, I just happened to be grading at the time!Emiline Hunter wrote: 30 Mar 2026, 15:44 Also hi Professor Taros! thanks so much for your speedy marking