I never got a grade on “class participation” at UMD. The classes were huge and frankly, I just wanted to get the lecture and bug out.
It was usually the incessant yakker in the smaller classes who tied up profs and caused endless delays in lecture time.
It was always the same people who elicited the same groans day after day after day. ~ Usually crashing bores with inflated senses of themselves.
Sometimes, it was hard enough keeping the PROFESSOR on track with the lesson.