Kosh's Shadow 9/8/2019 5:01:00 PM

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lucius septimius 9/8/2019 5:06:01 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

Our online grading system never failed to crash whenever I was dealing with a big class.  Half the time my comments wouldn't load.  And the interface was user-hostile.

lucius septimius 9/8/2019 5:14:59 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 9/8/2019 5:15:49 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 2:

Using BlackBoard Ultra. It freezes (doesn't crash). A pain when entering grades, very bad when reviewing comments, because once a line of a post has shown up for about 1 second, it marks it read, so closing and reopening the page causes me to miss posts.

And for some reason, other people aren't experiencing the problem. I think it is because I have two windows open at all times,so if a student asks a question, I can look it up. With two open in Chrome, it was very bad. Works better in Firefox. But I have one open in each.

lucius septimius 9/8/2019 5:21:03 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 4:

Blackboard was too expensive; I think ours was "Harvey's Grading and Stuff Software"  It supposedly did not work in Chrome but I was able to get it to work no worse than in any other browser.  I think the IT department was "manned" by dispeptic hagfishes.

Kosh's Shadow 9/8/2019 5:26:46 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 5:

They used to use a homegrown system that actually worked well. It didn't have all the "reactive" features now in style, that make sites harder to use.

@PBJ3 9/8/2019 10:41:25 PM

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