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elucrehSo I'm taking an online course this summer--I would tell you why, but it would involve weeping--and it is the stupid basic requirement "communications" course that I have to take in order to graduate.
BASIC COMMUNICATIONS.
In this class:
All of the links I need to check every day have to be clicked to through a series of buttons, whereas all the buttons I only need to check once--the syllabus, for example--never disappear from the top of the page. Calendar? E-mail? Class discussion boards? Require two more steps to access.
In order to contact the teacher by e-mail, you can't do it through the e-mail program provided. You cannot even easily find her address, say, by checking the syllabus or a class-provided e-mail listing. You have to search the main site for the teacher's address, go to your personal e-mail, c&p, and go from there. (Actually, as far as I can tell, it is completely impossible to use the provided e-mail program.)
Each of the units is in a separate link off the main page. Each assignment in each unit (and there are, like, four, not nineteen) has its own separate little page. Each time you want to go between assignments or units, you have to go back and find the other (out of order) little picture. There is no "go to next unit" or "next assignment" link anywhere.
It took the teacher three days to get back to me on an issue that affected whether or I not I dropped the class. Had she responded promptly, I could have dropped it with a full refund. (Luckily, her answer was such that I decided not to drop it. Luckily for her. There are such things as signing people up for every possible obnoxious ad spam campaign on the planet...my sister has exes, I know how to take my revenge.)
There is no logic or order to the discussion threads and what order they are in.
Dudes. Discussion threads. I had a hard enough time following conversations on Checkmated, when I cared what we were talking about. I find myself staring at the things thinking: "Why can't we get a damn LJ community?" (I realise, I'm spoiled.)
I spent three hours in a mire of bizarre links and typoed information from the teacher trying to figure out what my first assignment was and when it was due.
The instructions they sent the bookstore resulted in me a) buying a completely superfluous $150.00 book and b) not only buying the DVD to go with the wrong book, but not being informed that there was a second DVD that was supposed to go with the right book.
This class is supposed to be teaching me to communicate information clearly, promptly, and efficiently. How to make the information I want to convey easy to access and understand. How to follow through to insure that people have understood and that my instructions are being carried out properly.
...I'm guessing they don't intend to teach by example....?
BASIC COMMUNICATIONS.
In this class:
All of the links I need to check every day have to be clicked to through a series of buttons, whereas all the buttons I only need to check once--the syllabus, for example--never disappear from the top of the page. Calendar? E-mail? Class discussion boards? Require two more steps to access.
In order to contact the teacher by e-mail, you can't do it through the e-mail program provided. You cannot even easily find her address, say, by checking the syllabus or a class-provided e-mail listing. You have to search the main site for the teacher's address, go to your personal e-mail, c&p, and go from there. (Actually, as far as I can tell, it is completely impossible to use the provided e-mail program.)
Each of the units is in a separate link off the main page. Each assignment in each unit (and there are, like, four, not nineteen) has its own separate little page. Each time you want to go between assignments or units, you have to go back and find the other (out of order) little picture. There is no "go to next unit" or "next assignment" link anywhere.
It took the teacher three days to get back to me on an issue that affected whether or I not I dropped the class. Had she responded promptly, I could have dropped it with a full refund. (Luckily, her answer was such that I decided not to drop it. Luckily for her. There are such things as signing people up for every possible obnoxious ad spam campaign on the planet...my sister has exes, I know how to take my revenge.)
There is no logic or order to the discussion threads and what order they are in.
Dudes. Discussion threads. I had a hard enough time following conversations on Checkmated, when I cared what we were talking about. I find myself staring at the things thinking: "Why can't we get a damn LJ community?" (I realise, I'm spoiled.)
I spent three hours in a mire of bizarre links and typoed information from the teacher trying to figure out what my first assignment was and when it was due.
The instructions they sent the bookstore resulted in me a) buying a completely superfluous $150.00 book and b) not only buying the DVD to go with the wrong book, but not being informed that there was a second DVD that was supposed to go with the right book.
This class is supposed to be teaching me to communicate information clearly, promptly, and efficiently. How to make the information I want to convey easy to access and understand. How to follow through to insure that people have understood and that my instructions are being carried out properly.
...I'm guessing they don't intend to teach by example....?
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Date: 2007-06-05 10:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-19 02:41 am (UTC)And, you know, poo on silly classes. >.> Lame!