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Re: Infinite Campus Woes
Posted by New User on 8/04/07

    You are correct in explaining how the screen is supposed to work...except if
    more than 1 section of a course is offered in a specific period. If one of
    the sections is full, the period is shown as red.

    With your computer background it should be clear that this is an
    error...there is space in the course within the period and the user sees the
    course as full. If you click on the red period the user will overload the
    course if he or she has the permission to do so.

    As a matter of fact IC recognizes this as a bug and has assigned it a bug
    number, and has no plans on fixing it any time soon.

    In a school with 5000 students and many periods where multiple sections are
    being offered, this feature requires double and triple checking because
    red=full is not accurate.

    Respone welcome...the reality for my district is that the sales presentation
    and initial training hid this fact which speaks to the integrity of the
    seller.

    On 8/01/07, Newest user/teacher wrote:
    > You recently said "Also, the color coding scheme in the walkin in
    > scheduler that is supposed to tell counselors when course are full
    > does not work".
    >
    > That is wrong, there are several colors. Most the posts to complain about
    > software is about people like you and me not knowing the full features and
    > also the "correct" way to do something. As software gets bigger and does
    > more, it will get more complicated and takes a little patience to learn.
    > I was a computer programmer for 10 years and now teach a computer lab to 7-
    > 9th graders. (I to do complain about new things that I don't understand,
    > but now that I am very good at my portal I have really no complaints).
    >
    > Red shows exists but is full
    > Blue shows exists and there is room
    > Yellow shows the student is in the course already.
    >
    > The colors do work.
    >
    > On 7/20/07, New User wrote:
    >> On 7/20/07, New User wrote: Sorry hit send without a few edits
    >>> On 7/14/07, maggie wrote:
    >>>
    >>> It was refreshing to read through these posts and see an account
    >>> manager for IC respond...but he or she seems to have gone silent.
    >>>
    >>> Most of my colleagues use blackboard and are very happy with its
    >>> capability. I am not sure why campus is not repsonsive to the needs
    >>> of teachers in terms of replicating all of the features of current
    >>> popular grade books mentioned here. Giving the time intensive nature
    >>> of teaching, making the grade book work to the meet the needs of
    >>> teachers in terms of ease of use seems like it should be a high
    >>> priority.
    >>>
    >>> However, in practice, I have had experiences like: the seating chart
    >>> claims that you can swap around students. But in reality, once a
    >>> student is moved to a new seat, the other student disappears and must
    >>> be re-entered. When new user encounters these false claims, they lose
    >>> faith in the product. Also, the color coding scheme in the walkin
    >>> scheduler that is supposed to tell counselors when courses are full
    >>> does not work. If any section of a course offered in the period is
    >>> full the period shows up red. The fact that both of these problems
    >>> are known bugs that campus is not planning on fixing only adds to
    >>> frustrations.
    >>>
    >>> I like the product and it has great potential, but all of it's
    >>> advertised features should work...period. And future releases should
    >>> address known bugs...period.
    >>>
    >>> Thoughts and feedback welcome.

     
     

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