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| Cynthia Posts: 5720/5814 |
Ailure: She shouldn't have included those functions then because most of the class wouldn't even know that OpenOffice existed. 
Hell, if it wasn't for OO I wouldn't have passed that course. |
| Ailure Posts: 2537/2602 |
Originally posted by ColinI don't see this as a bad thing. OpenOffice is good. Besides the other way around happens alot too.
Besides the Microsoft equilant of that Math formula construction program is in a bit more expensive MS office pack... Seems like allot of people have blackboard or webCT, and are annoyed at it. I wonder if there's some kind of contract... since there's apparently superiror open source solutions. 
Of course, it dosen't help when the professor don't use the system properly. |
| Toxic Posts: 240/251 |
The problem I have is with the shitshow known as "homerconnect"
Anybody else used this? It's so fucking convuluted, I have to like go to "register", something you wouldn't associate with the task I'm trying to do, which is...look at my weekly schedule. |
| Xenesis Posts: 156/200 |
Eh, Blackboard isn't too bad. Used it rather extensively in First Year, the Science Department kind of abandons it in the higher years apart from distributing lecture notes.
That being said, never had a problem with it using either Safari or Firefox. |
| neotransotaku Posts: 1850/1860 |
I've used WebCT, Blackboard, and now this thing called bspace. It has a nice interface for humanities related classes but it is virtually useless for, at least, computer science classes. One CS class tried to use it and that project failed so badly that the class abandoned it 4 weeks into the semester in favor of a homebrewn system. |
| Rune@GSC Posts: 1/2 |
Aye. After almost 3 years of use, WebCT bothers me as well.  |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4854/5072 |
My high school tested some automated quiz program once. Man was it dumb. It would mark you wrong if your answer didn't match letter-for-letter (eg "Texas" is wrong, correct answer is "The state of Texas" or some such stupidity) and sometimes even if it did. It failed everyone and the teachers ended up grading them all by hand anyway.
Those teachers did nothing but look for ways to get out of work. Often we'd simply be told to exchange papers with the person next to us (not even specifying a direction, leading to much confusion) and grade their work as the teacher read off the answers. Needless to say, this never actually worked; people would always just mark their friends' work right whether it was or not (sometimes correcting it on the fly), or in many cases, just not exchange papers and grade their own.  |
| SamuraiX Posts: 159/302 |
My school has Aeries, and it doesn't work most of the time, and is useless the rest of the time. |
| Xeo Belmont Posts: 897/1016 |
Originally posted by XkeeperOriginally posted by Racer Xeo Then almost every teacher will say: "Turn off all your pop-up blockers, and bla bla bla so it can work!" 
You'd think a school-based thing like this would work right and be pretty stable, but ... hah, yeah right. |
| Cynthia Posts: 5706/5814 |
I used Moodle for one class last year... it actually worked out well.
The teacher using all kinds of math functions in the document files, however, didn't. I needed to get OpenOffice just to view the damn stuff. |
| Xkeeper Posts: 5411/5653 |
Originally posted by Racer Xeo Mostly because they're fu ll of crappy javascript hacks. What really annoys me is the "YOU ARE NOT USING A SUPPORTED BROWSER BLAH BLAH WHINE" on every fucking page if you're not using IE. |
| drjayphd Posts: 1150/1170 |
They used Blackboard at the alma mater. Can't think of any classes I took that actually used the damn thing, though.  |
| Xeo Belmont Posts: 894/1016 |
Blackboard bought out WebCT by the way. Didn't really effect anything I guess, it still sucks.
I used Blackboard in High School, and WebCT last Semester at my College, both sucked. Definitely sad the websites don't work very well in anything besides IE6. |
| NSNick Posts: 2187/2228 |
Originally posted by Dr_Death16 Likewise, we switched from WebCT to Carmen, which seems to work well. But not too many professors use it extensively. |
| Schweiz oder etwas Posts: 2023/2046 |
My university uses WebCT (blows), WebAssign (not so bad but still kinda blows), and some of the CS professors code their own homepages and assignment submission forms (they don't use cookies, so I can't have it open for more than 30 minutes without risking losing 8 hours of work). Hooray for lazy professors, eh? |
| Dr_Death16 Posts: 900/970 |
My university retired both Blackboard and WebCT usage campuswide and instead switched to their own ICON (Iowa Courses Online). It's pretty nice, I've had no problems thus far and have used it for multiple classes, both this semester and last. |
| Skreename Posts: 1419/1427 |
Originally posted by SurlentHeh, ironic somewhat. Our version of Blackboard doesn't work with the most recent version of Internet Explorer. |
| Surlent Posts: 101/103 |
We use Blackboard as well. I don't know any other "e-learning" systems, so I cannot judge how well BB works, compared to other solutions.
On the one hand it's good that you obtain your material directly (PDFs and other files) and instead of having printed 600+ pages (like one lecture/course requires you to read about fifty pages per week) and paying for that, you can download it easily. It' not that much work reading the stuff, but if you have multiple tasks and having to find the fitting text from that huge (obviously not-sorted) stack of paper on your desktop. The downside is still is the fact, that very few grades are visible online; though you know the result directly after you got your test or term paper back. Those 'quizes' can be created as well and the lecturers even can check if you participated in it or not. But fortunately these doesn't count/gives grades - would be useless anyway if you take part from home ... as you have access to your books and the world wide web. I don't like to read longer texts on the computer, and what I might need later as well (not only in the forthcoming lesson), it is still easy enough to hit the "print" button. I just wished, Blackboard worked properly with Firefox; for some reason our version doesn't display anything after logging in - but there's that neat "IE Tab" extension for FF, which fixes that issue without any flaws. |
| Ailure Posts: 2528/2602 |
Use fucking moodle.
Our school uses it and it rocks.  Though we do have some assignments that the teacher hadn't updated from the last year. xD But he updates thoose as he sees them. |
| Skreename Posts: 1418/1427 |
Blackboard isn't too bad. Better than Web-CAT (is this related to WebCT? Not sure). The CS department tends to use Moodle, though, and that's rather nice. |
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