WebAssign: Or, why my school's attempt to go green is a piece of junk. - General

[QUOTE=deadeye536;25301593]I remember having to use [url=http://sam2007.course.com/LoginSam2007.aspx?ReturnUrl=/]Course[/url] for a few assignments in my computer class. It's very annoying in how terribly slow it can be, and how specific you have to be with the way you complete the module. You must do it a certain way, and if you miss a click, or accidentally click anywhere else, you've used up one of your three tries.[/QUOTE] [img]http://gyazo.com/9f394430d409f72d4a2566af69ea3336.png[/img]

I actually have a feeling schools are going to start handing out iPad's to do homework. Someday...

An iPad would be better than this flaming pile of garbage.

Why does it use some retarded answer recognition thing? The assignment should be checked by the teacher, not the software.

[QUOTE=haloguy234;25298812] Sometimes you're given a problem like "Finish the following equation." Such as Force = Mass * Acceleration. In the case of the question, it wants you to fill in the Mass and Acceleration part. Me, being the natural stupid fuck I am would put in MA, because I've always seen the equation as F = MA. But [I]noooo[/I], I need to write it in lowercase. I experimented with all sorts of different multiplication operators and even tried swapping the letters around so A came first and M came last (which shouldn't matter because multiplication is commutative.) [/QUOTE] Ummm the symbols for mass and acceleration ARE supposed to be written lowercase. You should've known that. :colbert:

My AP Physics teacher puts all our book work answers up on Blackboard. Usefull, until it crashes almost every weekend.

I used Webassign for my physics class. It was smart enough that formatting didn't matter much, and your example regarding decimal precision seems suspect, as I regularly pasted answers that went to 8 decimal places and got them right. If you're capitalizing when you shouldn't, it's your fault if you get it wrong, because whether or not you capitalize is pretty fucking important in physics. I ended up disliking WebAssign not because of the interface, but because you receive no credit for wrong answers, whereas with written work it's enough that you try.

my school uses omo-elo. You can easily upload anything in the Drop Your Assignments In Here box and have free reign. [editline]03:08PM[/editline] The nifty part about Omo-Elo is that it checks for plagiarism between students and online texts. Although, good 'ol rewriting takes only 5 minutes of your time and completely bypasses this. There's also this bug that allows you to send a mail to EVERYONE in the system (all students, teachers, janitors even), with any file inclosure you want.

We use [url=http://www.masteringphysics.com/site/login.html]Mastering Physics[/url] If there is a guess limit, I haven't found it.

Yep we are using it for our Advanced Calculus (AP Calculus BC) classes and it is utter crap. It doesn't recognize any other keyboard layout other than QUSA, so I have to change my layout but then I have no way of seeing where the characters are. I am almost a touch typist in my own layout but with it I either have to individiually check each key, each key with shift and each key with alt gr, or I have to live with the fact that there is no "+" sign and use "--" to get a plus.

We use mymaths. Its just for maths, but im serious. Its the worst designed piece of shit ive ever seen and its just annoying...

[QUOTE=Whomobile;25302132]White boards are better. Always hilarious when a relief teacher writes in permitent marker rather then white board marker, an then spend five minutes trying to rub it off, and then realize the dumb mistake they made.[/QUOTE] you know if you put permanent on whiteboard it's easy to get off just by drawing over it with a whiteboard marker and then wiping it away? [editline]10:20PM[/editline] miracles, I know [editline]10:21PM[/editline] miracles, I know [editline]10:21PM[/editline] slow FP gives doubleposts

I use some sort of this system too, just there you have to upload everything to the central server located in the school.

My college uses moodle, and from what I've seen of it so far it's not too bad.

apparently [url=http://yacapaca.com/]this[/url] is a suitable medium for gcse coursework and I have to use it

We use [URL="http://www.mymathlab.com/"]MyMathLab[/URL] and some online thing the college has. At the beginning of the year they were having some problems but right now it seems pretty decent. The math thing is retarded though. you could put the right answer as decimal but NO IT WANTS IT IN A FRACTION FUCK YOU MATH LAB. It's very pissy about doing it exactly the way it wants it.

My college used Moodle when I was there, I never used it as it was optional.

[QUOTE=catbarf;25305416]I used Webassign for my physics class. It was smart enough that formatting didn't matter much, and your example regarding decimal precision seems suspect, as I regularly pasted answers that went to 8 decimal places and got them right. If you're capitalizing when you shouldn't, it's your fault if you get it wrong, because whether or not you capitalize is pretty fucking important in physics. I ended up disliking WebAssign not because of the interface, but because you receive no credit for wrong answers, whereas with written work it's enough that you try.[/QUOTE] I capitalized them for my own sake. The variables for mass and acceleration are always pronounced as "EMM" and "EH" so when I write them out I always write them in capitals. It's an OCD thing. From now on I'll start pronouncing the equation as "F = muh" since that's how it's written.

Webassign is a piece of shit. I also had a lousy teacher, but I'm convinced that online homework doesn't fucking work. We're also using online homework for my current Calc class and German class. However, I believe that as long as online stuff is used to augment normal paper homework, it works pretty damn nicely. We have both paper and online homework in my German class, and I respect the teacher so much for that.

My school is entirely online and the one thing I absolutely hate about it is Math assignments. It has the same issue to where the answer has to be specifically correct or it won't count, and my lazy math teacher never reviews our assignments. Except, we only get one try. Other than that though, it's pretty awesome. I feel pretty good about "helping the environment" til I realize how much of our work is still printed.

My college uses Moodle, which I like for the most part, except the online quizzes. The questions are randomly generated by idontfuckingknowwhat, but the questions will frequently be missing a word integral to their meaning, such that they don't quite test your knowledge of the content, so much as your guessing skills.

I used WebAssign in my Physics class last year. I personally liked it. I found it very easy to use and I never had any problems with it. Plus, if I couldn't find the answer, I'd just copy the question into Google and I'd get a bunch of results from Yahoo! Answers with the exact question, which helped a lot. I actually learned more that way than from the teacher.

I'm using Web Assign and it works just fine, I do my homework on my phone, even. [editline]01:57AM[/editline] And teachers can change grades, so just because it told you MA was wrong, you could easily ask your teacher and they could talk to you about it and then fix it, because you clearly know the answer. [editline]01:59AM[/editline] Oh and it takes multiple answers for every problem. Say the answer is 4 + 1, 1 + 4, or 5 would work as well. (A better example would be a trinomial factored and unfactored but I'm lazy).

I feel so outdated, I write all my shit on paper with a fountain pen.

My college uses moodle.

I think those online learning-systems are ridiculous and teacher using those are just lazy.

[QUOTE=ijyt;25308314]My college used Moodle when I was there, I never used it as it was optional.[/QUOTE] We use Moodle too, it's not bad, atleast the current version isn't.

Moodle's alright, but my school puts these retarded passwords on there, like how the fuck am I supposed to know that the English Language password is Beowulf? Also, off-topic, but we're in the process of studying for our Year 12 Media exam next month. Yesterday morning, our teacher opened this program on the projector which played a guide to studying for it, along with comments which were posted at the time, kind of like a pre-recorded classroom. It was all well and good, except for when I noticed some guy with the username "DUDEMAN69" who argued with everyone that FLV isn't a video format, definite troll.

[QUOTE=Magick;25305268]My AP Physics teacher puts all our book work answers up on Blackboard. Usefull, until it crashes almost every weekend.[/QUOTE] We use that too, where do you live? It has a big EQ on it so I'm assuming you are a Queenslander?

We recently started using Mangahigh. So our teacher tells us it's basically a maths website where you play games. Except they're not fucking games at all, just maths questions with cartoony graphics. Then I realise I do what was in my opinion pretty poorly at one game, then realise I was 'first' on the leaderboard for my school by like fiftyfuckingthousand. We also use MyMaths, the less said the better.