ECA
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ECA SUBMISSION
1. Take note of the cut-off-date for submission of ECA (for courses conducted in English Language). Refer to Student Handbook Section 8.1: Submitting your end-of-course assessment (ECA).
2. Ensure that all required files (appendices, attachments, etc) are submitted online BEFORE the cut-off-date.
3. Avoid last minute submissions as heavy network traffic may be anticipated.
4. Check that you receive an email notification option of a successful assignment submission.
Cut-off Date:
The cut-off date was originally on the 16th of March, but they revised it. UniShit could have saved themselves lots of trouble if they had not implemented this pointless ECA and its equally meaningless video presentation.
I don’t know why in Gehenna we have to do a video presentation for our final assessment. We are only part-time students. We have work, family and other obligations to concern ourselves with. The online quizzes, group projects and self-study are taking up even more of our already limited time and it is downright irresponsible for UniShit to impose even more workload on already stretched students. Hell, not even full time business students have to do bullshit like this!
If UniShit could make it compulsory for us to take Effective Communications to learn academic writing, I don’t see why we are not taught how to do presentation when we are obliged to present ourselves on camera! Very few of us actually have to do presentations, let alone an online presentation in our professional life. We may be working adults, but that does not mean we are Toastmasters instructors!
We are not even allowed to use cue cards or read from notes for our video presentation. Again, this is an incredible and ridiculously unreasonable burden for poor Business students to bear. Even a brilliant speaker like Professor Richard Dawkins, an authority in his field and with over thirty years of teaching experience, uses PowerPoint and refers to his notes when he lectures. Some of our lecturers, who are of course subject material experts in their own right, cannot even articulate themselves properly. So what makes UniShit think that students can do any better?! We are not even Mass Communications or English Language students for Christ’s sake!
Come project submission time, UniShit’s infernal system tends to cock up. Knowing well the limitations of their substandard IT, why do the management still make people submit their video online when previously it was the procedure for students to submit their work in a CD? It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that when your system can crash with document files, it will definitely screw up with video files added in. We are not just talking about a ‘mere’ file size of 100mb or less for each student. Multiply that a thousandfold and we are talking about hundreds of gigabytes of data flooding into a system which is already notoriously dodgy! Can anyone with a decent intelligence not expect it to FAIL?
Just pay the management bananas.
Extending the dateline does not solve the problem. On hindsight, a competent management should have realized how stupid and futile their decisions are. Obviously that the management in the
On Sunday I spent an hour submitting my written report, PowerPoint presentation and the video file online. The written report took only a minute or so, although I had to resubmit the PowerPoint presentation a few times. My video (close to 100mb) took nearly half an hour to upload itself into the University system. The system told me to wait; the video was being processed and that I would receive an email confirmation. I was to follow the instructions in the email if I wanted to submit a new copy.
I don’t know what email they were talking about but I didn’t receive any email for any of my three submitted files.
“There is error when processing previously submitted assignment.”
Now, I am certain that there isn’t any problems with my video file. I am able to play it on RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. There are no problems with the image and the sound is audible and free from noise. Therefore UniShit has screwed up yet again.
I called the technical support and I told the guy in no uncertain terms that I would not be given a fail grade because of their stupid system. He said some students are encountering difficulties submitting their video online so UniShit has now allowed us to submit the video personally to the administration block.
They posted this sorry message up a few hours later.
Thu, Mar 12, 2009 -- Extension of submission of [name of course]
Dear [name of course] students,
In view of the difficulties in the ECA video submission for some students, the school has decided to extend the ECA deadline to 17 Mar 09 (Tue), 12
For students who encounter video uploading problems, please contact [technical team] for assistance BEFORE the deadline of 17 Mar 09,
Blackboard Helpdesk Team’s Email : [email]
Blackboard Helpdesk Team’s Contact : [number] (Press ‘2’)
[school]
Video Submission
Dear [course], [course], [course] & [course] students,
Firstly, we would like to apologise for difficulties that you have encountered over the online video submission.
To avoid further problems until the current difficulties are resolved, students who have yet to submit their video online successfully, please revert to CD submission at [address] before 7.30pm, starting from today till 20 March 09 (Friday), 7.30pm .
Please be assured that there will be no late penalty imposed for video submission done by 20 March 09 (Friday),
For students who need assistance on CD creation, please bring along a blank CD, and proceed to [address] at the following timeslots:
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17 March 09:
18 -
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Therefore, to summarise CD submission can be made at the following date, time & venue:-
1) 17 March – 19 March 09
- before
- between
2) 20 March 09 before
(Please note that [address] is only opened from
Kindly note that this special arrangement is only applicable for video submission, all Reports and Powerpoints have to be submitted online and by the stipulated due date and time (i.e.
Thank you for your understanding.
[School]
From the University’s online Discussion Board:
“Topic: tips for ECA (End of Course Assessment) Name Date/Time
Topic: tips for ECA (End of Course Assessment) Name Date/Time
Topic: tips for ECA (End of Course Assessment) Name Date/Time
Topic: tips for ECA (End of Course Assessment) Name Date/Time
Topic: tips for ECA (End of Course Assessment) Name Date/Time
Topic: tips for ECA (End of Course Assessment) Name Date/Time
……….”
I counted thirty-one posts from the ‘tips for ECA’ thread.
I am not violently against people who choose to plagiarize, but I hope these people had shown some intelligence. If they want to collude with one another, at least have the good sense NOT TO ADVERTISE! Like other universities, UniShit takes an ‘officially’ strong stance against collusion and plagiarism. Doing a shitty part-time course is bad enough. Please do not give the damn management a chance to clamp down on students and make our existence more miserable.
We don’t’ need more imbeciles when the School of Business has more than adequately filled the imbecile quota normally required for institutions of this nature.
They are everywhere.
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