Comments on: I can’t get out of what I’m into

By: Belle

Belle — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:05:58 +0000

D2L. Blackboard. Any CMS – sucks. What they all need is to talk to teachers, not techies. We can’t even create a simple class list with any of our online systems – Banner or anybody. Cut/paste a list? You are joking…

It’s a steady job… but I do love the teaching bits. It’s the other $hit that gets in the way.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:21:03 +0000

But it’s the only thing that makes us money. . . and it *does* give us something to laugh about! (And our real lives ain’t. . . all that.)

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:45:55 +0000

Our library won’t open a reserve desk. It drives us crazy. “Everything is online”, except when it’s a book that isn’t.

By: quixote

quixote — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:39:19 +0000

D2L? Bwahahahaha. Yup. Been there. Done that. It’s as bad as everyone says.

(Just in case somebody needs an analogue and hasn’t heard of it, I’ve used Moodle. It’s free, open source, and not hard to use. Although I’d suggest sticking with their v1.9x. Too many rough edges in version 2.)

By: truffula

truffula — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:03:56 +0000

@ Indyanna: D2L!!!!1!1!! Ugh. We have already been infected but I refuse to participate, just as I refused to participate with Blackboard and just as I refused to participate in whatever came before that. I simply will not waste my time learning to use a software that is destined to be replaced two years from now. What’s so wrong with putting things on reserve at the library? I know, I know, I’m so out of touch with the youth of today.

@Historiann: Indeed they are and it creeps me right out.

By: Notorious Ph.D.

Notorious Ph.D. — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:31:43 +0000

Oooh! Indyanna! Our school bought that this year! It’s godawful: won’t e-mail anyone with yahoo or aol addresses, allows students access to each other’s e-mails and student ID numbers… not to mention the ass-ugly interface and stoopid name.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:48:43 +0000

@truffula: If some authorized “vendor” should happen along on your campus and try to get you to sign off on an invoice-and-purchase order for something called “Desire2Learn,” [D2L for any tech-rappers out there], run, run, run, and keep on running, unless you want to spend your whole waking month (minus 2.5 hours) in non-stop “Wimba” webinars.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:15:18 +0000

They’re trying to turn you into The Man, truffula. Get out now, while you still can!

By: truffula

truffula — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:59:55 +0000

Having been temporarily vacuumed up out of the rank and file–into the level of management at which somebody is always whacking you for something–I’m trying to keep in mind that this might all just be the gateway to a career in humor writing. I’m required to attend a monthly 2.5 hour “leadership development” group. Really, consciousness-raising for bosses, how funny is that?

I’ve been singing the Carter Family’s Worried Man Blues with my a lot kids lately.