Wednesday, 24 March 2010

E-Learning today was great. 4 subjects only. Compare that to last year. What was it? 7 Subjects. And the portal wasn't lagging at all either, how great is that? Last year it'd take 15 mins to load a page with one question, 2 mins to answer it, and then click submit, and another 15 mins to display the next question. All I can say is that I spent only 1/4 of the time that I spent last year doing this E-Learning, I even had time for training! Last year you had to start early and end at like 11.59pm, plus minus 1 minute. Nah jk but it really could go that late to about 11.30pm, firstly because of the amount of work, of which 80% you would hate, and the fact that the portal was lagging with over a thousand students on the same website simultaneously. So, today was an excellent E-Learning day and I shall look forward to the next one in July, if it is just as good as this.

But of course, everything comes with it's downsides. Expecting a long day of staring at the computer the night before, I went to Studywiz to check if anything was out yet at 12am. I saw an E-Learning survey, so I took it. They asked me things like "Are you satisfied with the amount of work you get?" and "Are you satisfied with the speed of Studywiz?", something like that. Well, naturally, I wouldn't know at that time what it would be like today, so I used experience from last year. And of course, after what I said in the paragraph above, I went to check the Disagree options for those questions. And then there was a box at the bottom for "Additional Comments/Opinions". What did I put there? I requested for less work and a faster portal. Now, that's really unfair, after what they did today. 4 subjects compared to 7 last year, and I want less? And Studywiz was working fine, I don't need a better server. This is a case of "Don't count your chicks before they are hatched". I did the survey too early, more than 8 hours early, in fact.

I guess I should go and do the survey one more time and fill in the opposite of what I did the first time. I really didn't expect today to be a good E-Learning session, I thought it would be the same situation as last year, and with even more work. So, Strongly Agree and Disagree should cancel out to become Agree, so that should be fine. And I shall emphasize on my satisfaction with E-Learning today to make them happier.

Anyway, I was up late into the night this morning, listening to really funny conversations on Skype. It was just... epic. And as a result, I slept late, which means not enough sleep, so I was tired during training, I could really feel a significant drop in my reaction time and I was not in the mood to run for even 2 metres. Thus, training was somewhat bad today, but somewhat bad is in between quite bad and OK, so it's not too bad. I did really badly in the 3-point thingy though, it was quite cold today and I couldn't move.

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