WebAssign

After taking a couple courses using webbasign for Bellevue College I found it to be a useful resource for teachers and students.

Pro's:

Easy centralized website for students and teachers to access assignments, tests and quizzes.

Assignments are clearly organized and easy to navigate through.

Digital book.

Can access information any where any time so long as you have internet connection.

Con's:

Digital book. The digital book is very unstable and not easy to read in anything older than the most current technology. Not everyone has the financial ability to have the best and latest technology. If I had more than two copies of the book open to flip through pages it literally crashed my computer and gave me the blue screen of death. I literally hold onto my computers until they die or are so out of date they are compatible with nothing. I think I fell behind in the class because I struggled just trying to get the digital book to load correctly half the time. I will request a paper copy next time. I have read digital books but I struggle in them. I find I learn more easily with a real book.

Zero lenience for wrong answers on the tests. My teacher said if you got the answer wrong in webbasign she'd adjust your grade for you based upon your notes. She lied. I saw no such thing. If you select one answer wrong you're that's it; it's done. I flat out failed a course because of this. Thank you for my F webbasign. I don't test well and this thing just made me flat out fail. I do not take timed tests well and there was insufficient time to take tests. The bulk of the time I only got about half the test done. For an easy course I'm surprised how difficult the teacher made her tests. Each test was as difficult as an end of the quarter exam.