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Have I mentioned lately how much I hate online classes? Because I still do.
I just had to take our second meteorology test online, and while there were about three questions that I was pretty sure I would get wrong, a one or two that I felt could go either way, the rest I was just as sure that I would get right. However, there were two or three questions that i *would* have gotten right that I ended up getting wrong. You see, I have no room to use my detachable mouse up here on this computer desk because my dad's old desk top takes up more than half the available space, so I end up using the arrow buttons and the attached touch pad on Shadowlite's keyboard/base to move the mouse and the curser around. On websites in particular I use the up and down arrow keys to scroll because the scroll bar on the touch pad only works when it wants to.
Unfortunately, using the arrow buttons on the Desire to Learn website moved the selection of my most recent answer rather than scrolling the page up and down, so if I put 'a' as an answer and then pushed the down arrow key to move to the next question, instead of moving the page, it moved my answer from 'a' to 'b' and so forth the more I pushed the arrow key. I *thought* I caught most of them and redid them before submitting, but after checking my answers and my grade, there were like three of them I missed. And every question was worth between 3 and 5 points. Which means I lost at least 12 points I *would* have had right and ended up with a 78% instead of a 90%. This pisses me off to no end.
I do have 10 extra credit points that the teacher gave me to attach to the test of my choice for getting the right answer to one of his weather challenges, so I *can* get an 88% instead of a 78% if I so choose, but it still annoys me. I hate online classes. More homework and less intuitive to do it since you have a week between every assignment. I should have just waited until next year and taken Intro to Meteorology at St. Cloud, where at least *my answers on the written tests would have stayed where I put them!* ::growls::
I just had to take our second meteorology test online, and while there were about three questions that I was pretty sure I would get wrong, a one or two that I felt could go either way, the rest I was just as sure that I would get right. However, there were two or three questions that i *would* have gotten right that I ended up getting wrong. You see, I have no room to use my detachable mouse up here on this computer desk because my dad's old desk top takes up more than half the available space, so I end up using the arrow buttons and the attached touch pad on Shadowlite's keyboard/base to move the mouse and the curser around. On websites in particular I use the up and down arrow keys to scroll because the scroll bar on the touch pad only works when it wants to.
Unfortunately, using the arrow buttons on the Desire to Learn website moved the selection of my most recent answer rather than scrolling the page up and down, so if I put 'a' as an answer and then pushed the down arrow key to move to the next question, instead of moving the page, it moved my answer from 'a' to 'b' and so forth the more I pushed the arrow key. I *thought* I caught most of them and redid them before submitting, but after checking my answers and my grade, there were like three of them I missed. And every question was worth between 3 and 5 points. Which means I lost at least 12 points I *would* have had right and ended up with a 78% instead of a 90%. This pisses me off to no end.
I do have 10 extra credit points that the teacher gave me to attach to the test of my choice for getting the right answer to one of his weather challenges, so I *can* get an 88% instead of a 78% if I so choose, but it still annoys me. I hate online classes. More homework and less intuitive to do it since you have a week between every assignment. I should have just waited until next year and taken Intro to Meteorology at St. Cloud, where at least *my answers on the written tests would have stayed where I put them!* ::growls::