WebCT - Down?

Sully · 03-01-2007 12:54am #1

Hey,

Anyone having problems with WebCT? Trying to revise some stuff and I cant access my notes. Iv been able to access it all day but now when I login it says my user/pass is incorrect. Which it isnt. Any thoughts?!

cyberwit · 04-01-2007 12:31am

Sully04 wrote:

Hey,

Anyone having problems with WebCT? Trying to revise some stuff and I cant access my notes. Iv been able to access it all day but now when I login it says my user/pass is incorrect. Which it isn't. Any thoughts?!

Often got that message trying to log onto WebCT at home, some days worked other days my user/pass is incorrect. Its always worked for me in college. You'll have to log in college.

I am currently having an even worse time with WebCT and College email both Firefox + Internet Explorer cannot display webpage i think my problem is with my Zone Labs Firefall

Minto · 04-01-2007 1:37am

I had that problem last night, but it was fine this morning!

Sully · 04-01-2007 1:43am

One of the college lad says that is the error message displayed when there is a server outage or if something goes wrong on webCT. A an hour after posting, webCT let me back in again.

WebCT needs a facelift, and proper error messages.

rogue-entity · 04-01-2007 6:51am

With the many IT students and IT staff, you would think that they could have developed their own system instead of paying a few grand for WebCT, a system that I dislike. It often seems to have outages and problems during the summer, perhaps because the IT staff are spending that time to work on the network and servers.

Sully · 04-01-2007 6:27pm

rogue-entity wrote:

With the many IT students and IT staff, you would think that they could have developed their own system instead of paying a few grand for WebCT, a system that I dislike. It often seems to have outages and problems during the summer, perhaps because the IT staff are spending that time to work on the network and servers.

I thought WebCT was put together by WIT Staff?

Minto · 05-01-2007 12:23am

From what I understand, the content is put together by the lecturers, but the system is bought in.

Webmonkey · 05-01-2007 12:26am

Minto wrote:

From what I understand, the content is put together by the lecturers, but the system is bought in.

Yeah sure we have the same thing at CIT

dlofnep · 05-01-2007 12:27am

It's fine for me.

Sully · 05-01-2007 11:47am

Minto wrote:

From what I understand, the content is put together by the lecturers, but the system is bought in.

Strange. We were told of the exact lecturer who put it together. :rolleyes:

Christ that college doesnt seem to know anything.

Thanks anyway all.

Webmonkey · 05-01-2007 3:02pm

Well it could still be of your lecturers that made the system, doubtful but a possibility

BostonB · 07-01-2007 3:41pm

They used to use WebCT in ITB aswell. I think its rubbish myself. ITB have switched to Moodle. Which is better but still not great.

Webmonkey · 07-01-2007 6:53pm

It is rubbish alright especially when you click back , it goes all wrong. The system isn't very browser friendly tbh.

rogue-entity · 08-01-2007 3:42pm

Moodle is Open Source as well, so it can be extended and modified so easily, and its free too. But WIT, like most colleges in this country wouldnt dream of using Open Source... its just too.. un-microsoft :rolleyes:

The other thing about WebCT is that it is so rigid in the browsers it supports, I am always getting errors when I use Firefox or Opera. At least Moodle is likly to be standards compliant, and so will work with all of them, not just IE.

I can tell you here and now, SNET, RedBrick and many other computing societies would not exist without Open Source.

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