[09:46] <chesedo> morning all
[09:51] <paddatrapper> morning chesedo 
[10:01] <chesedo> how is it going paddatrapper?
[10:35] <paddatrapper> chesedo: good thanks. You?
[10:42] <chesedo> paddatrapper: great ty, began with studies again late last week
[10:47] <paddatrapper> chesedo: nice. I start in 2 weeks again
[10:52] <chesedo> nice
[10:53]  * chesedo has to spark, it seems that one lecturer is expecting us to complete 16 chapters (at least 8 are revision) before the end of Feb - then we will also have nothing left for the rest of the semester
[10:59] <chesedo> i guess this means UNISA uses java for its student portal backend -> https://pasteboard.co/H59IDft.png
[11:01] <MaNI> they use sakai
[11:02] <MaNI> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakai_(software) <- which is indeed Java
[11:08] <paddatrapper> chesedo: heh, good luck!
[11:09] <paddatrapper> UCT uses the same platform
[11:13] <chesedo> eish!
[12:24] <paddatrapper> it's not too bad, but the wiki and some of the other modules leave much to be desired
[12:44] <chesedo> overall not too much, it is just slow, outdated (uses iframes everywhere) and the discussion module is not geared at distance learners - we do not really use the other modules
[12:59] <paddatrapper> yeah I don't use the discussion and chat modules, but that's largely because my classmates ask stupid questions
[13:05] <MaNI> haven't used it lately, but at the time they switched over the old unisa portal was actually far superior IMO
[13:40] <chesedo> MaNI: really? when was that?
[13:42] <MaNI> 2009 or so
[13:43] <chesedo> interesting
[21:49] <superfly> Bwahaha! <paddatrapper> yeah I don't use the discussion and chat modules, but that's largely because my classmates ask stupid questions
[21:50] <paddatrapper> superfly: They go one about things that have been clearly layed out in 50 different emails...
[21:51] <superfly> paddatrapper: I hear you. Anyone with a little real world experience tends to be like that.
[21:51] <superfly> ag
[21:52] <superfly> paddatrapper: what I meant was that most students can be a little shortsighted because they haven't lived in the real world yet
[21:52] <paddatrapper> superfly: yeah that is true
[21:53] <superfly> Both my brothers and I had a gap year before studying, and we all saw the lack of thinking from those straight out of school
[21:53] <paddatrapper> it's crazy. Just a little bit of reading and half the questions wouldn't be there