My girlfriend started taking a Masters in a college this year. In her course the faculty have shown some disorganization and computer illiteracy since day one but the latest one…completely killed me.

Besides their personal college e-mail, they wanted a platform to make announcements for all the course (20 students). I can think of a thousand ways to do this. Hell, even a Facebook group would be better. But no…

They have an e-mail address (like [email protected]) where all the info is sent and EVERYBODY has the password to enter the e-mail and check the inbox.

That is it. I have no words. I think this is the most idiotic and dumb thing I’ve ever seen in IT.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    68·
    2 年前

    my wife is a university senior lecturer — it’s likely they already have a system that can do this, that they have access to, works, and is non-technical; all they need to do is ask where it is.

    • kureta@lemmy.ml
      17·
      2 年前

      I went back to university last year and exactly this. They have Microsoft subscription with all the bells and whistles, classroom, work material, homework, etc.

      edit: I guess I just ADHDed in the middle of writing this comment. it was supposed to continue:

      … zoom and all its options, plus a custom classroom web app that replicates some of Microsoft’s stuff and all professors use WhatsApp for everything, and email only for delivering finals papers.

    • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 年前

      I think it was blackboard that was used when I went to a further education college years ago. It supported announcements on it. I would imagine a university having similarly software as one of the reasons for blackboard was so we uploaded our assignments to it.

      • Thrashy@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 年前

        I don’t know if it’s any better than it used to be, but Blackboard was pretty universally loathed by the faculty when I was in college.

        • ShunkW@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 年前

          Dude I hated it as a student too. The only benefit it provided was a one time get out of jail free card per class. Intentionally corrupt a word doc and upload it. You just bought yourself at least a day to continue finishing your paper.

        • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          You have to admit, it’s still better than having a singular email address that everyone has the login to.

  • Spendrill@lemm.ee
    52·
    2 年前

    Plot twist: the MA program is in Ethics and Morality and they’re in the middle of a live experiment.

  • fixerdude2@lemmy.ca
    39·
    2 年前

    A very poor attempt at a mail-list. I wonder when someone’s going to change the password.

  • Sky_Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    2 年前

    Seems like it might be time to change the password on that email address. You know, for security reasons. 🤔

  • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
    261·
    2 年前

    “Hey all, I wanted to say that class is cancelled today b/c of severe weather - PLEASE do not try to come in, it really is quite dangerous outside!”

    Got it, message received, [delete message]. Cleaned out my inbox today, guess I can go stay home! :-P

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
    8·
    2 年前

    Moodle is free and open source and exactly for this (along with hosting course material as well).

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 年前

    Just because I like to see the world burn I would clear the inbox/sent folders each time a email is received.

    Maybe start to draft emails with nonsense in them, such as shopping lists of items that don’t make sense together. A list of all the best bathrooms on campus. List of students in class based on height.

    Would not hurt to subscribe the email address to a bunch of junk/spam/marketing sites.

    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 年前

      Nah, I’d sign up for cat memes or something, then set up filtering rules to delete everything except for the cat memes. If they’re dumb enough to think the shared inbox is a good solution, they might not know about filters.

  • sajran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    53·
    2 年前

    Well, can’t say I’m surprised. I had something like that in pretty much every school I was in, just that ours were actually Gmail accounts. For non-technical folks it’s an easy and obvious solution. And to be honest, it works…

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      2 年前

      It “works” if everybody is well behaved and you don’t care about niceties like seeing which messages have been read.