I find it inexplicable that the DD209 Course team would choose to post the errata sheet for Book 1 and the Online Tutorials on the day before the TMA and iCMA were due, and when we have effectively no more use for Book 1as a teaching resource - although we will obviously need it as a revision resource.
There have been some quite significant errors mentioned in this errata sheet which should have been posted on the website immediately after they were identified. Waiting until the end of the section to do this is just perverse.
It makes you wonder what further errata we have yet to encounter in Book 2 and the rest of the online stuff.
While I'm on..... the Forum Posting bit of the TMA, worth an overall 5 %, was as predicted a car crash. There were those who chose to post before anybody else had got near to reading the necessary material, a few who posted at an appropriate time and attempted some discussion and the majority who posted the minimum required at the 11th hour without any hope of stimulating discussion at that late stage. Goodness only knows how they are going to mark this.
It makes me think that this course is not overly academically rigorous. 4 x ICMAs done over a long period of time, open book and with whatever support you can muster = 28% of the course, a mini TMA to get us started 7 % and this Forum Discussion thing another 5%, means that you should be getting pretty close to the required 40% pass without having to put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard on the 4 main TMAs.
Also, the promises of a prompt turn around of the iCMA scores have failed to meet expectations. These are computer marked, it should take milliseconds.
Oh well, I might get round to looking at this weeks work by the end of the week, times already slipping by.
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