Trying to submit TMA01 for M253, and I’m being greeted by this wonderful caption. Again. Seems the OU’s new web platform is best described as “shaky”.

TMA01 for M253 is due on Monday, and my team is deep into finalising the team portions of the TMA. Or we would be, if the OU website were playing ball:
Due to a problem, we’re currently unable to display your course content.
Our technical staff have already have been notified, and will be fixing it [...]

Completed the first task for M253 last Thursday. I’ve been saving posting it to the course forum to give me a chance to quickly go over it with a fresh mind, and because I didn’t want to be the first to post the activity – no-one likes a swot.
Just went to look [...]

Yesterday was the M359 exam, and it’s going to go down in history as one I’d rather forget. There are a few things that went wrong with this:
- I misunderstood the whole block 5 thing, and assumed that each presentation would do one part and ignore the other. By the time I figured out [...]

Just got my registration in for the next course on my list – M253, Team-Working in Distributed Environments. If you read the course reviews for this one, you’ll find that there’s not a single nice thing to be said about it, with complaints about:
- it taking far more work than a 10-pointer should require;
- [...]