I'm trying to think of something more stupid than this but it's not easy...

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨spirinolas@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

My girlfriend started taking a Masters in a college this year. In her course they 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 Masters_name@college.duh) 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.

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key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s like someone explained the idea of a mailing list but they didn’t quite get it.

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OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“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

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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Moodle is free and open source and exactly for this (along with hosting course material as well).

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sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Simple. Elegant. Perfect.

10/10

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ceiphas@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Connect via POP, Instant fun

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- stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why? Can you please explain the joke to me?
  
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  - VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Many emails clients automatically delete the messages on the email server once they locally download them.
    
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sajran@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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…

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