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smroepe
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WHYYYYY do teachers not use google calendar. it would be so much easier than sending out a syllabus in a word document. I would love any teacher that would allow me to subscribe to a google calendar and not worry about typing in every assignment.

1/20/2011 9:45:42 AM

nothing22
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you should bump this over to study hall

1/20/2011 9:46:38 AM

qntmfred
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this is a great suggestion. does moodle or wolfware or whatever they use now have a feature like that?

1/20/2011 10:22:49 AM

ThePeter
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From my own experience, many professors barely know how to use Wolfware. Maybe you could look into finding an "import calendar items" for your Google Calendar

1/20/2011 10:31:54 AM

darkone
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Cut instructors a little slack. The university mandated and supported class room tools like wolfware, vista, moodle, etc... seem the change every other semester. It's hard to refine your online classroom tools when they're constantly changing. That being said, good instructors should be open to reasonable suggestions.

1/21/2011 3:52:02 PM

rbrthwrd
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i think this should be pushed for whenever they finally move faculty to gmail

1/21/2011 4:26:30 PM

darkone
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^ Last I heard was that faculty shouldn't hold their breath.

1/22/2011 1:31:47 AM

mrfrog

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Most instructors I know haven't updated their online stuff in over a decade. It's like they made a webpage when the internet got big and then... really didn't have a reason to return to it.

1/23/2011 10:03:25 PM

Stein
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Quote :
"WHYYYYY do teachers not use google calendar. it would be so much easier than sending out a syllabus in a word document. I would love any teacher that would allow me to subscribe to a google calendar and not worry about typing in every assignment."


Right now all faculty and staff calendars are in Groupwise/Wolfwise, not Google Calendar. This may change in the future since everyone is eventually getting moved to Gmail but in the meantime, that's at least part of the reason.

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"^ Last I heard was that faculty shouldn't hold their breath."


You heard wrong. Everyone's moving eventually.

[Edited on January 23, 2011 at 10:41 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on January 23, 2011 at 10:42 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2011 10:37:52 PM

Talage
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"eventually"


I think the idea he was going for there was the eventually part...Harrelson was s'posed to come down in 2002, amirite?

1/23/2011 10:50:40 PM

Stein
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This is a very different eventually than that.

1/24/2011 9:45:59 AM

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