What Test Taking Software does your School Use?

[Ryois]

Our school uses Edulastic which I hate!

Canvas is the best sadly we dont use it much.

EDIT: SOMEONE's SCHOOL USES MS FORMS?! LOL

[Damascus]

Back when I was a highschool sperg my school said they used blackboard but didn't in reality. All tests were pen & paper

[mikat]

I only take tests on the computer in IT class and we use https://www.wintoets.nl/

It's terrible but the upside is that you can look up the answers on google because our teacher is stupid enough to let me sit with my monitor facing away from him

[Slurpy]

7 minutes ago, Ryois said:

Our school uses Edulastic which I hate!

Canvas is the best sadly we dont use it much.

Mobymax/No Internet

[Ryois]

Just now, mikat said:

It's terrible but the upside is that you can look up the answers on google because our teacher is stupid enough to let me sit with my monitor facing away from him

wow lol.

[DrMacintosh]

Each Student gets unlimited Google Drive Storage, the District uses Aries to report grades (though its useless for anything other than final transcripts), Canvas for most classes (used for assignments, quizzes, tests, and Calendar) and a few classes use Google Classroom despite it being literal AIDs. 

[mikat]

Just now, Ryois said:

wow lol.

I only cheat on tests where the questions are really dumb (asking stuff about javascript from literally 7 years ago)
Last time I had to take a test where we would write something on our own in javascript I got a 9/10

[Ryois]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Each Student gets unlimited Google Drive Storage, the District uses Aries to report grades (though its useless for anything other than final transcripts), Canvas for most classes (used for assignments, quizzes, tests, and Calendar) and 2 classes uses Google Classroom despite it being literal AIDs. 

We get 1TB of O365, Aspen for grades, and Edulastic is the main test taking platform. We don't use anything google sadly. Besides the free stuff like YT and Google Search.

[Ryois]

Just now, mikat said:

I only cheat on tests where the questions are really dumb (asking stuff about javascript from literally 7 years ago)
Last time I had to take a test where we would write something on our own in javascript I got a 9/10

Wow... When we do like vocab tests I just google the word.

[DrMacintosh]

2 minutes ago, Ryois said:

We don't use anything google sadly

Besides Docs, Slides, Sheets, and YouTube I really don't like Google Services much. 

 

Especially Drive, its feels so limited and I find it a little unreliable. Every folder gets Zipped and I HATE IT

[mikat]

Just now, Ryois said:

We get 1TB of O365, Aspen for grades, and Edulastic is the main test taking platform. We don't use anything google sadly. Besides the free stuff like YT and Google Search.

Google apps for education is great

we use a different program for everything tho:

google for email, drive and office

somtoday for grades

zermelo for rosters

 

[mikat]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

Besides Docs, Slides, Sheets, and YouTube I really don't like Google Services much. 

 

Especially Drive, its feels so limited and I find it a little unreliable. 

Drive is great for school, not for anything else though.

[Ryois]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Besides Docs, Slides, Sheets, and YouTube I really don't like Google Services much. 

 

Especially Drive, its feels so limited and I find it a little unreliable. 

I find OneDrive to be bad. It looses files, the sharing is crap, and etc.

Then our IT makes it dumber. We can't send emails to anyone else but our MAIN teachers and higher ranked people. Principal, and Central Office. I hate it so much.

[Ryois]

1 minute ago, mikat said:

Google apps for education is great

we use a different program for everything tho:

google for email, drive and office

somtoday for grades

zermelo for rosters

 

Outlook/OneDrive for Email and storage.

Grades and rosters are in one web app.

Just now, mikat said:

Drive is great for school, not for anything else though.

I semi-agree.

[mikat]

2 minutes ago, Ryois said:

I find OneDrive to be bad. It looses files, the sharing is crap, and etc.

Then our IT makes it dumber. We can't send emails to anyone else but our MAIN teachers and higher ranked people. Principal, and Central Office. I hate it so much.

Microsoft products are a dumpster fire, I've had experiences with my mom setting up sharepoint (for work) syncing and let me tell you: It's really dumb and confusing with the onedrive client and the onedrive for business and resolving merge conflicts

[DrMacintosh]

2 minutes ago, Ryois said:

I find OneDrive to be bad. It looses files, the sharing is crap, and etc.

Then our IT makes it dumber. We can't send emails to anyone else but our MAIN teachers and higher ranked people. Principal, and Central Office. I hate it so much.

Thats terrible. The district gives us all emails by first initial, middle name initial, and last name plus a three digit number. That way all students can email teachers, students, and anyone else. 

 

The Drive accounts also let us share work and collab. But for personal use Drive sucks. 

[Ryois]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Thats terrible. The district gives us all emails by first initial, middle name initial, and last name plus a three digit number. That way all students can email teachers, students, and anyone else. 

 

The Drive accounts also let us share work and collab. 

Our emails are firstname.lastname@student-<ourdistrict>.net If they have conflicting emails they add a 1,2,3,4 and so on.

[Ryois]

2 minutes ago, mikat said:

Microsoft products are a dumpster fire,

Semi-Agree

 

2 minutes ago, mikat said:

I've had experiences with my mom setting up sharepoint (for work) syncing and let me tell you: It's really dumb and confusing with the onedrive client and the onedrive for business and resolving merge conflicts

Yeah its so dumb.

[mikat]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

Thats terrible. The district gives us all emails by first initial, middle name initial, and last name plus a three digit number. That way all students can email teachers, students, and anyone else. 

 

The Drive accounts also let us share work and collab. 

we have lln (leerlingnummer, pupil number in dutch) + our number @school.nl

for teachers it's abbreviation@school.nl or firstname.lastname@school.nl

it's handy

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Ryois said:

Semi-Agree

Have you seen MS Word? 

 

Its the most overly complex word processor out there. Sure its got all these features but the menus are more dense than the super massive black hole in the middle of our Galaxy. 

[Ryois]

Just now, mikat said:

we have lln (leerlingnummer, pupil number in dutch) + our number @school.nl

for teachers it's abbreviation@school.nl or firstname.lastname@school.nl

it's handy

Teachers use firstinitalfulllastname@<district>.net and one time I caught a teacher logging into windows with their full email and password and I was thinking, it uses the <district> domain automatically no need to do that.

[Ryois]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Have you seen MS Word? 

 

Its the most overly complex word processor out there. Sure its got all these features but the menus are more dense than the super massive black hole in the middle of our Galaxy. 

That's a funny way to put it. whos gonna use equations in MS Word? 3D models? How about cringy WordArt!

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Ryois said:

That's a funny way to put it. whos gonna use equations in MS Word? 3D models? How about cringy WordArt!

Yeah like who designed this?

[mikat]

Just now, Ryois said:

That's a funny way to put it. whos gonna use equations in MS Word? 3D models? How about cringy WordArt!

before we start ragging on microsoft too hard: they also created visual studio code and windows subsystem for linux which are great, but all the other ms products are kinda meh

[Ryois]

I hate the new Office home too.

I chose the gray color scheme because it had the most gray in it.

Edited December 3, 2017 by Ryois
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