This evening I stumbled upon a class project which has uploaded over 3,000 observations, almost none of which have been identified using the CV but do have identifications- most of which are wrong. The vast majority have been identified to just four species. For example, so far 525 observations have…

[image] larry216: y’s army of observers have neglected to include their observations in the project, so far. I hope they I sent the project admin a message trough iNat last night; haven’t heard back yet.

I want to commend @ciafre for a super diplomatic, empathetic analysis of this problem. With a little bit of backgrounding one can get a picture of a relatively new instructor in a high-volume course (possibly taken by a lot of non-majors), trying to spice up a lab session at the end of the semester…

[image] ciafre: creator of the project (presumably the professor or a TA) has just 2 observations One of which is Casual with no picture. So that means a single obs effectively.

[image] janetwright: With a little bit of backgrounding one can get a picture of a relatively new instructor in a high-volume course (possibly taken by a lot of non-majors), trying to spice up a lab session at the end of the semester The project was created in late October, but there were mor…

As a former lab instructor/TA, I apologize. We aren’t all like this

But then sometimes iNat is a happy success [image] How did you choose your iNat username? when I had to download iNaturalist for a class in botany. I think I needed 50 total observations and 35 had to be research grade. Looking back it’s really funny that I took a whole semester to do that when …

I would love it if there was a way to flag projects like that. It would also be nice if people couldn’t make projects without a minimum amount of observations and ID’s, say, 100 observations and 500 ID’s.

I haven’t had much time to work on these today, and the students are still out making more observations, but we’re making some great headway. Thank you everyone for helping to identify and for the discussion here! I was incredibly frustrated yesterday when I made this post, but it’s been really enco…

I got one of my former professors interested in iNat and he’s since used it for a class project 2 years in a row. For some reason he sets the filters to include Casual and RG but exclude Needs ID… I tried emailing him to explain it but I never heard back haha. All of the professors I’ve had who do …

Has the project been deleted? I’m not finding it anywhere.

How to correct thousands of misidentified observations uploaded by a class?

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