[IceFire]

I'm familiar with WebCT...help run an installation of it at my job.  Its actually not related to Blackboard...they bought WebCT out last year.

What version of WebCT then...WebCT 4.1 does not require IE6...if it did I would have gone nuts.  Have tested Safari, Firefox, Netscape, Konqueror, and several other browsers with either no issue or very few.  No java check on uploaded files or anything like that in the version we have.  Its pretty old...maybe thats a good thing.

[Polpolion]

Hey sasqu, are you going to university or high school, or what?

[Hippo]

whatever WebCTVista is versionwise. The version my 2nd school is using doesnt get quite so annoying as the one my older one did, but i dont know what it was running. Wikipedia says its rater known for bad java use and browser issues... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webct

[IceFire]

Yeah thats several versions ahead of us...fortunate

They must have amped up the Java use...most of the version we use is with Perl scripts and some other nasty stuff.  Management of these systems is an absolute nightmare.  If you think its bad as a student then just imagine the whole tip of the iceberg thing.

[Kosh]

All of you that are having problems...what systems are you running into?  I know the popular software in the US is Blackboard (in various iterations).  I didn't realize it was this bad or that restrictive if thats what you're running into.  Certainly an issue.

Blackboard was one of the few online systems that actually worked. The homework sites were something seperate, made by some company somewhere. I just felt the whole thing was copout.

[Sasquatch]

Hey sasqu, are you going to university or high school, or what?

I go to the University of North Texas, the 4th largest University in Texas, I can't believe that there is software that is OS based here.  I even talked to a server tech. and he said that I was ****ed. 

[CP5670]

I only ever did one course (a basic Java class) with an internet grading system, some proprietary thing developed by the department. I initially ran into some problems submitting my work but otherwise found it okay. I doubt I'll run into such a thing again as those setups are hardly ever used beyond the intro level classes.

[Polpolion]

Hey sasqu, are you going to university or high school, or what?

I go to the University of North Texas, the 4th largest University in Texas, I can't believe that there is software that is OS based here.  I even talked to a server tech. and he said that I was ****ed. 

Oh. If you were going to high school, you might be able to get away with it, but yeah; you're ****ed.

[jr2]

...You have an Intel Mac?  If so, get boot camp + Win XP.