Online college testing

[EggSnake]

Alright this seems like regretful whining, but hear me out.

Should Colleges make students test online, ie. BlackBoard or other program? I had finacial aid and ACT Scholarship money go directly down this fucking hole because due to work and health I couldn't spend 18 hours a day on classwork, both at school and at home.

I know teachers like to be cute by giving out homework, although there is no evidence suggesting that homework is better than in class work as a learning tool, especially in American schools, where all the teacher does is assign homework and a page number, works out a problem, then goes away, all of this 15 minutes after class officially begins, so the kids usually just copy someone's homework if they didn't do it themselves, all for what?

A Job?

This really pisses me off. Maybe knowledge and occupational wage slavery never will mix well enough to stave off the structuring of social classes, and maybe people know it.

80 percent of all americans in college are only there to get a decent job. No actual ambition or goals exist for them, only a keep up with Mr. Jones mentality.

If you throw in the idea of online testing, then an apparent and unnecessary attempt to continue this feudalist born sham democracy exists. First of all, you need to be able to spend 18000 dollars not to make 18000 dollars, but to only keep 18000 dollars. Throw in the corporate eggings of a monopolistic telephone/internet market and the outlandishness of certain job requirements (a college degree to join the army? Are you fucking kidding me) and already we can see an extra 1000 dreams wither for the value of a dime.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with blackboard, let me sum this up for you.

IT IS HOMEWORK THAT CAN ONLY BE DONE AT A CERTAIN TIME, USUALLY IN A PREDETERMINED PERIOD, AND IS ALSO USUALLY TIME LIMITED, AND IS ALWAYS A FUCKING PROBLEM!

A lot of you might not realize how far down some grades have slipped due to inability to do what is essentially easy homework between 8 and 8:45 pm on tuesday or 4:30 to 5:30 wednesday, but some classes may indeed hold mystery test dates and millisecond late entries against you for, I dunno, ALL OF YOUR GRADE IN SOME CLASSES!

The local university sucked down 3000 dollars in govt and scholarship money and told me not to come back. Fuck them.

Your comments?

[ArmouredGRIFFON]

18 hours a day?!

[EggSnake]

7 at school, 3 in homework, 8 in scheduling life around a pop quiz at 8 pm at home when you should be jerking off to Heroes.

[RydiaLockheart]

Um, no. We use Blackboard in the classes I just finished this trimester and there is no lockout time, unless you didn't do it by the time that the assignment ended. For example, if it was due at midnight, there's no submitting it at 12:01 AM. It's open from the time the professor opens it to whenever it ends. If you didn't the indicated time period, that's your fucking problem.

You know what? Everyone on the planet has to stick to deadlines. What do you think careers consist of? Sounds like you're just whining because the professor wanted you to do work outside of class. God forbid.

[EggSnake]

This is proof that you only think of this college business as a way to be better than someone.
You know, in the middle east, a man is ranked by how many wives he has.
More, you probably sucked your teacher's dick anyways, and you were all like, please talk to me outside of class because I'm a frat boy and I need authority because I've never been away from daddy for more than a week so love me, so fuck you.
Fuck you Prick!
I don't see the value of the online testing, and aside from that I had at least five test lockouts based on entry time, partially because I had to GO TO WORK after class.

Fuck you and your shitty job that you will get for brownnosing.
Eat a dog dick, fucker.

[Malachy]

At 11/13/09 08:51 PM, EggSnake wrote:

And that's the end of your thread.